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Women’s Writing (Theory) [1]

Paper Code: 
25CENG612
Credits: 
6
Periods/week: 
6
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to acquaint themselves with the multifaceted and complex nature of writings by women from across the world and investigate the diversity of their socio-cultural experiences against the literary history of women’s studies and feminist criticism.

 
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO73.Analyse diverse literary texts through the perspective of gender

CO74.Theorize women’s writings drawn from across continents

CO75. Examine the impact of the socio-political and cultural issues reflected in the prescribed texts

CO76. Critically appreciate literary texts by women writers within historical and contemporary relevance.

CO77.Construct their opinion on how women characters’ lives are shaped in various geographic

Settings

CO78.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

17.00
Unit I: 

Emily Dickinson

I cannot live with you

I’m wife; I’ve finished that

 

Sylvia Plath

Daddy

Lady Lazarus 

Ariel

The Colossus

 
18.00
Unit II: 

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

 
17.00
Unit III: 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

 

Katherine Mansfield

Bliss

 
20.00
Unit IV: 

Arundhati Roy

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction

 

Mahasweta Devi

Dopdi

 
18.00
Unit V: 

Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace

 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reference Books:

Beauvoir, Simone de. “Introduction”. The Second Sex .Trans. by Constance Borde and Shiela Malovany, Vintage, 2010.

Mohanty, Chandra Talapade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses”. Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Ed by Padmini Mongia, Arnold, 1996.

Sangari , Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. “Introduction”. Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History . Kali for Women, 1989.

Woolf, Virginia. “Chaps. 1 and 6 “. A Room of One’s Own. Harcourt, 1957.

 

E-Resources including links:

https://sheuban.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/a-feminist-literary-criticism-o... [2] https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1762&context=lajm [3]

 

Reference Journals:

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities

 
Academic Year: 
2025-2026 [4]

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[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/women%E2%80%99s-writing-theory
[2] https://sheuban.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/a-feminist-literary-criticism-of-emily-dickinsons-poem-i-m-wife-ive-finished-that-poem-189-2/
[3] https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1762&context=lajm
[4] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2025-2026