Students will be oriented to read literary works which depict women in different hues and perspectives. Through this paper they shall be encouraged to formulate their own ideology and values.
Women in First World Literature: Early 19th Century – Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyer, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
European Literature: 19th Century – Anna Karenina, Maxim Gorky’s Mother
African Literature: Late 19th 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
Books as per referred in the syllabus