Women, Language & Literature

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

The objectives of this course are-

 

  1. To make students study language with respect of patriarchy.
  2. To evaluate women’s contribution in several literary texts and autobiographies.
  3. To make the students familiar with women’s portrayal in Mythology.

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper Code

Paper Title

WMS 501

Women, Language and Literature

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.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

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
Unit II: 
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
Unit III: 
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
Unit IV: 
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
Unit V: 
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

References: 

Unit I

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

 

Unit II

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

 

Unit III

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

 

Unit IV

C Rajgopalachari, Ramayan and Mahabharat.

 

Unit V

Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew;

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice;

Krishna Sobti’s Mitro Marjani

Academic Session: 
2020-21
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