WOMEN, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Paper Code: 
WMS 501
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

  
 

CO 49: Recognize the use of language as a stereotypical practice.

CO 50: Review the image of women in several literary texts.

CO 51: Assess women’s participation through their memoirs.

CO 52: Acquaint with the representation of women in our Epics.

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

9.00
  • Introduction to Language as a patriarchal construct in Primary and Secondary Education, Abuses on Women’s bodies

 

9.00
  • Images of women in literary text by men & women writers – Rabindranath Tagore’s Binodini, Sharat Chandra’s Charitraheen, Munshi Premchand’s Kafan, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s Ekadasi, Darisi Annapurnamma’s Gnanamba

 

 

9.00
  • Autobiographies of women: Tarabai Shinde’s ‘Stri Purush Tulana’, Veena Mazumdar’s Memories of a Rolling Stone, Prabha Khetan’s Anya se Ananya

 

 

9.00
  • Depiction of Women in Ramayana and Mahabharata: Sita, Urmila, Ahilya, Manthara, Kaikeyi, Mandodari; Gandhari, Madhavi, Draupadi, other wives of Pandavasa – Hidimba and Subhadra.

 

 

9.00
  • Expectation from women due to dominance of a particular Literature (English/Hindi) Shakespeare’s Taming of a Shrew; Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas, Krishna Sobti’s Mitro Marjani

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Susie Tharu and Lalita K (ed.) Women’s Writing in India, 600 BC to Twentieth Century, Volume I & II, OUP, New Delhi, 2009 Introduction Vol. I pp 1-38
  • Sharat Chandra’s Charitraheen, Rabindranath Tagore’s Binodini, Munshi Premchanda’s Kafan,
  • Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s Ekadasi, Darisi Annapurnamma’s Gnanamba in Susie Tharu and Lalita K (ed.) Women’s Writing in India, 600 BC to Twentieth Century, Volume I & II, OUP, New Delhi, 2009 pp 421-424, 451-459
  • Tarabai Shinde’s ‘Stri Purush Tulana’ in Susie Tharu and Lalita K (ed.) Women’s Writing in India, 600 BC to Twentieth Century, Volume I & II, OUP, New Delhi, 2009, pp. 223-234
  • Veena Mazumdar’s Memories of a Rolling Stone, Kali for Women, New Delhi 2010
  • Prabha Khetan’s Chhinnamasta
  • C Rajgopalachari, Ramayan and Mahabharat.
  • Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew;
  • Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice;
  • Krishna Sobti’s Mitro Marjani

 

 

Academic Session: 
2022-23
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