Women in World Literature

Women in First World Literature: Early 19^th Century – Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyer, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

European Literature: 19^th Century – Anna Karenina, Maxim Gorky’s Mother

African Literature: Late 19^th Century - Khalil Gibran’s Women and Marriage in The Prophet, Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Third World: Twentieth Century – I Roberta Menchu An Indian Woman in Guatamala, Khaled Hosseini’s Thousan Splendid Suns, Marjane Satrape’s Persepolia

South Asia: Partition Writing, Sociological writings, Poetry

Urvashi Butalia’s Other Side of Silence, Manto: Thanda Gosth, Kaali Salwaar, Kitab Ghar; Kur Lajja, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s Heart Divided, Lahore, Fehmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed