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SREENARAYANAGURU OPEN UNIVERSITY

B.A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE COURSE
B21EG03DE
WOMEN’S WRITING
CREDITS: 6

Course Objectives

1. To explore the various stages of the development of women’s writing.
2. To provide an exposure to the multitudes of feminist writings produced in
different regions.
3. To focus on the general traits that unite women writers and their literary
experiences.
4. To comprehend the plurality of women’s literature.
5. To understand the vitality of various cultural, social and gendered experiences
narrated in women’s writings.

Course Outcomes
By the end of the course, the learners,

1. will get a taste of various literary works written by women writers from
different parts of the literary world.
2. will be aware of the history of women’s writing from the beginning till the
contemporary times.
3. will understand the themes and narrative strategies of women’s texts.

4. will be able to deconstruct the gendered stereotypes existing both in literature
and society.

COURSE DETAILS

BLOCK 1: Historical Introduction

UNIT 1 Alice Walker “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”

BLOCK 2: Essays

UNIT 1 Virginia Woolf “Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights”

from The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf

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