Women's Writing B.A English Literature 3rd Year 5th Semester Syllabus, University of Madras

B.A English Literature                              III^rd Year V^th Semester

Core Paper XI - Women’s Writing

Unit-1: Introduction

➢     Women’s writing and the specific issues it deals with, gender aspects viz-a-viz society, theories.

➢     Ecriture Feminine

 ➢     Female, feminist, femininity

➢     Waves of Feminism, Postfeminism

➢     Tenets of Feminism- Liberal, Radical, Socialist, Cyber feminism.

➢     Patriarchy, Androgyny, Double marginalization, Stereotyping, male gaze, objectification

➢     Womanism- Language and gender

 Unit-2: Prose

1.     A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects -  Mary Wollstonecraft (Restricted to Chapter 13)

2.     Ain’t I a woman? - Sojourner Truth (Speech)

 

Unit-3: Poetry

1.     Persephone, Falling - Rita Dove

2.     Journey to the Interior -  Margaret Atwood

3.     Request to a Year -  Judith Wright

4.     Medusa -  Sylvia Plath

5.     A Sunset of the City -  Gwendolyn Brooks

6. The Old Playhouse – Kamala Das

Unit-4: Drama – 1. Trifles - Susan Glaspell

Unit-5: Short Stories

1.     Draupathi -  Mahasweta Devi

2.     The Yellow Wallpaper -  Charlotte Perkins Gilmar

3.     Forest -  Ambai

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