The Course will enable the students to recognise the literary texts that prioritize women’s issues across continents and identify the selected writers’ individual cultural bearings and literary sensibilities.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(Chap. 1, pp. 11–18 & Chap. 2, pp. 19–38)
Alice Munro
The Office
Boys and Girls
Margaret Atwood
Happy Endings
Unearthing Suite
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
Alexis Wright
Carpentaria
Judith Wright
Woman to Man
Bullocky
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Arkin, Marian. ed. and Barbara Shollar. Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women (1875-1975). Longman, 1989.
Davidson, Cathy N.and Linda Wagner- Martin. The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. OUP, 1995.
Weagel, Deborah. Women and Contemporary World Literature.Peter Lang Inc., 2009.
Journals:
Women’s Writing by Routledge.
E-resources:
Introduction to Gender Studies by Prof. Rashmi Gaur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xldCCh3WOQE.
The students will: CO109. Analyse diverse literary texts through the perspective of gender CO110. Explore by theorizing women’s writings drawn from across continents CO111. Identify the impact of the socio-political and cultural issues reflected in the prescribed texts CO112. Critique literary texts by women writers drawn from across continents CO113. Evaluate women’s historical and contemporary agency and how these have shaped women-characters’ lives in various geographic settings CO114. Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction. |