Syllabus
Course Code: BH-ENG 501 Course Name: Women’s Writing |
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MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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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’ |
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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). |
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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. |