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Women, Language and Literature
This paper introduces students to read language in service of patriarchy. This is made in such a way that even if students without a background study of Literature get a glimpse of ways in which Literature works in constructing values and how women’s autobiography sees the world around them.
Introduction to Language as a patriarchal construct in Primary and Secondary Education, Abuses on Women’s bodies
Images of women in literary text by men & women writers – Rabindranath Tagore’s Binodini, Munshi Premchand’s Kafan, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s Ekadasi, Darisi Annapurnamma’s Gnanamba
Autobiographies of women: Tarabai Shinde’s ‘StriPurushTulana’, Veena Mazumdar’s Memories of a Rolling Stone,
Depiction of Women in Ramayana and Mahabharata: Sita, Urmila, Ahilya, Manthara, Kaikeyi, Mandodari; Gandhari, Madhavi, Draupadi, other wives of Pandavasa – Hidimba and Subhadra.
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
Unit I
http://www.ncert.nic.in/departments/nie/dws/pdf/overallreportDGS_24_8_17.pdf 05.06.2019
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
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 ‘StriPurush 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
Vina Mazumdar’s Memories of a Rolling Stone, Kali for Women, New Delhi 2010
Unit IV
pp 18-60, Sharma, R S, The Ramakatha From Valmiki to Tulasidas, Chakravarti, Uma, Development of Sita Myth and Bhattacharya Sukumari, Women in The Mahabharata, in Ed. Sangari, Kumkum and Vaid, Sudesh, Women and Culture, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, 1994
Badrinath Chaturvedi, Women of Mahabharata, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad 2011
Unit V
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew;
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice;
Krishna Sobti’s Mitro Marjani
