Syllabus

Course Code: BH-ENG 501    Course Name: Women’s Writing

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Emily Dickinson:  ‘I cannot live with you’, ‘I’m wife; I’ve finished that’
Sylvia Plath:  ‘Daddy’, ‘Lady Lazarus’
Eunice De Souza:  ‘Advice to Women’, ‘Bequest’
2 Alice Walker:  The Color Purple
3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman:  ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
Katherine Mansfield:  ‘Bliss’
Mahashweta Devi:  ‘Draupadi’, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002).
4 Mary Wollstonecraft:  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988) chap. 1, pp. 11–19; chap. 2, pp. 19–38.
Ramabai Ranade:  ‘A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures’, in Pandita
RamabaiThrough Her Own Words:  Selected Works, tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp. 295–324.
Rassundari Debi:  Excerpts from Amar Jiban in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds., Women’s Writing in India, vol. 1 (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. 191–2.
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