University of Mumbai
Syllabus for M. A. English Program:
Part II Semester III Course: Elective II
Course Title: Gendered Perspectives on Literature Paper II-A
Course Title: Gendered Perspectives on Literature
Preamble: While issues of gender, race, class and nation are closely enmeshed, gender roles are inscribed in social forces rather than in natural or innate differences. The course on Gendered Perspectives on Literature articulates contemporary concerns, both academic and socio-cultural, on this subject. It exposes literary texts as a microcosm of beliefs and values that engineer gender ideologies and generate stereotypes; it also explores the contesting or subversion of such ideologies and stereotypes by examining contemporary debates in the study of gender and sexuality as reflected in literature. The course further addresses the patterned gender representations and the politics of departure from these locations. In the light of intense debates the world over, on the above issues, the need for such a course at the post-graduate level is self-evident.
Objectives:
1.To open up avenues in gender studies, including women’s studies, by acquainting learners with their complexities and diversity, especially in the constructs of gender and sexuality
2.To encourage learners to interrogate rigid frameworks of gender construction while sensitizing them to the process of socialisation and naturalization of gender
3.To enable learners to critically evaluate literary texts from a multivalent gender perspective
4.To explore the thematic and aesthetic concerns in identifying subversive strategies employed by literary writers.
Unit 1:
Critical Theory related to Gender, (Feminist Thought, Masculinity Studies, Queer/LGBT Theory);
Critical Approaches (Re-reading, Re-visioning, Gynocriticism, Trans-Criticism etc.);
Gender in theories of popular culture
N.B. The topics mentioned above will be introduced in the classroom. Students will then be expected to carry out a more detailed study of them independently.
Unit 2: Poetry:
Catherine Acholonu :“The Market Goddess” “The Way from The Spring’s Last Drop (1985)”
Arundhathi Subramaniam :“Meenakshi” “5:46, Andheri Local”
Sylvia Plath :“Daddy” “Lady Lazarus” W.H.Auden: “The Common Life” “Lullaby”
Countee Cullen: “Tableau” “Heritage”
Unit 3:
Fiction:
1. Reading Lolita in Teheran by Azar Nafisi
Or The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Or Writing Caste, Writing Gender, Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonies (ed) Sharmila Rege
Unit 4:
Drama
1. Sakharam Binder by Vijay Tendulkar
Or Tara by Mahesh Dattani
2. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on America by Tony Kushner
Or A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Critical essays:
Terry Eagleton :“Literary Theory: An Introduction” :“After Theory”
Julia Kristeva : “About Chinese Women”
Gayatri C Spivak :“French Feminism in an International Frame” :“Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Judith Butler :“Gender Trouble”
Luce Irigaray :“The Sex Which is Not One” :“Speculum of the Other Woman”
Michael S Kimmel :“Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
Andrea Dworkin : “Pornography: Men Possessing Women”
Vandana Shiva & Maria Mies :“Ecofeminism”
Jonathan Culler :“Reading as a Woman” (from “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism”)
•Gayle Greene & Coppélia Kahn :Introduction to Making a Difference
Fictional Texts:
•
Mahesh Dattani – A Muggy Night in Mumbai
•Vijay Tendulkar - A Friend’s Story
•Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
•Alice Walker - The Color Purple
•Virginia Woolf - Orlando
•Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy
•Madeleine Miller - The Song of Achilles
•Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Films:
•Brokeback Mountain •Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
•The Danish Girl
•Bird on a Wire
•Transamerica
•Fire
•Pretty Woman
References:
1.Auerbach, Nina. Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
2.Barrett, Michele. Women and Writing. London: Women’s Press, 1979.
3.Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: BBC, 1972
4.de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage, 1974.
5.Fetterley, Judith. The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
6.Forbes, Geraldine. Women in Modern India. (The New Cambridge History of India). New Delhi: Foundation Books, 1996
7.Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Gothic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1979.
8.Jacobus, Mary. Reading Women: Essays in Feminist Criticism. London: Methuen, 1986.
9.Jasbir Jain and Sudha Rai. Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2002
10.Loomba, Ania. Race, Gender and Renaissance Drama. New Delhi: Oxford India Paperbacks. 1992.
11.Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday. 1970.
12.Moers, Ellen. Literary Women: The Great Writers. New York: Doubleday. 1976.
13.Neuberger, Julia. Whatever’s Happening to Women? Promises, Practices and Payoffs. London: Kyle Cathie Limited, 1991.
14.Rich, Adrienne. On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1979. NY, London, 1979.
15.Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. Recasting Women: Essays inColonial History. Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
16.Sangari, Kumkum. The Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial India. New Delhi: Tulika, 1999.
17.Schor, Naomi. Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine. NY: Routledge, 1989
18.Sedgewick, Eve. Between Men: English Literature & Male Homosocial Desire. Columbia: 1992.
19.Tharu, Susie and K. Lalitha. Ed. Women Writing in India Vols. I & II. New Delhi: OUP, 1995.
20.Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program : M.A. English (Regular) Part II, Semester III, Elective II
ii) Course Code : PAENG302
iii) Course Title : Gendered Perspectives on Literature
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional References : Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester -06
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04
2. Scheme of Examination: 4 Questions of 15 marks each
3. Special notes , if any: No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
Semester End Examination (60 Marks):
Question 1: Essay on Unit 1 (one out of two) : 15 Marks
Question 2: Essay on Unit 2 (one out of two) : 15 Marks
Question 3: Essay on Unit 3 (one out of two) : 15 Marks
Question 4: Essay on Unit 4 (one out of two) :15 Marks
Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (40 Marks):
Sr. No. Particulars Marks
1. One written assignment/research paper on one of the texts suggested by the teacher for Internal Assessment -10 Marks
Presentation on the written assignment/research paper -05 Marks
Viva Voce based on the written assignment/research paper - 05 Marks
Total=20 Marks
2. One Internal Test based on the syllabus (one out of three questions) 20 Marks
Suggestions for Internal Assessment – Written Assignment/Research Paper (One or more of the following texts could be taken individually or in conjunction. These are only suggestions,other texts may be used)
Syllabus for M. A. English Program:
Part II Semester III Course: Elective II
Course Title: Gendered Perspectives on Literature Paper II-A
Course Title: Gendered Perspectives on Literature
Preamble: While issues of gender, race, class and nation are closely enmeshed, gender roles are inscribed in social forces rather than in natural or innate differences. The course on Gendered Perspectives on Literature articulates contemporary concerns, both academic and socio-cultural, on this subject. It exposes literary texts as a microcosm of beliefs and values that engineer gender ideologies and generate stereotypes; it also explores the contesting or subversion of such ideologies and stereotypes by examining contemporary debates in the study of gender and sexuality as reflected in literature. The course further addresses the patterned gender representations and the politics of departure from these locations. In the light of intense debates the world over, on the above issues, the need for such a course at the post-graduate level is self-evident.
Objectives:
1.To open up avenues in gender studies, including women’s studies, by acquainting learners with their complexities and diversity, especially in the constructs of gender and sexuality
2.To encourage learners to interrogate rigid frameworks of gender construction while sensitizing them to the process of socialisation and naturalization of gender
3.To enable learners to critically evaluate literary texts from a multivalent gender perspective
4.To explore the thematic and aesthetic concerns in identifying subversive strategies employed by literary writers.
Unit 1:
Critical Theory related to Gender, (Feminist Thought, Masculinity Studies, Queer/LGBT Theory);
Critical Approaches (Re-reading, Re-visioning, Gynocriticism, Trans-Criticism etc.);
Gender in theories of popular culture
N.B. The topics mentioned above will be introduced in the classroom. Students will then be expected to carry out a more detailed study of them independently.
Unit 2: Poetry:
Catherine Acholonu :“The Market Goddess” “The Way from The Spring’s Last Drop (1985)”
Arundhathi Subramaniam :“Meenakshi” “5:46, Andheri Local”
Sylvia Plath :“Daddy” “Lady Lazarus” W.H.Auden: “The Common Life” “Lullaby”
Countee Cullen: “Tableau” “Heritage”
Unit 3:
Fiction:
1. Reading Lolita in Teheran by Azar Nafisi
Or The Awakening by Kate Chopin
2. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Or Writing Caste, Writing Gender, Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonies (ed) Sharmila Rege
Unit 4:
Drama
1. Sakharam Binder by Vijay Tendulkar
Or Tara by Mahesh Dattani
2. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on America by Tony Kushner
Or A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Critical essays:
Terry Eagleton :“Literary Theory: An Introduction” :“After Theory”
Julia Kristeva : “About Chinese Women”
Gayatri C Spivak :“French Feminism in an International Frame” :“Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Judith Butler :“Gender Trouble”
Luce Irigaray :“The Sex Which is Not One” :“Speculum of the Other Woman”
Michael S Kimmel :“Masculinity as homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
Andrea Dworkin : “Pornography: Men Possessing Women”
Vandana Shiva & Maria Mies :“Ecofeminism”
Jonathan Culler :“Reading as a Woman” (from “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism”)
•Gayle Greene & Coppélia Kahn :Introduction to Making a Difference
Fictional Texts:
•
Mahesh Dattani – A Muggy Night in Mumbai
•Vijay Tendulkar - A Friend’s Story
•Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
•Alice Walker - The Color Purple
•Virginia Woolf - Orlando
•Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy
•Madeleine Miller - The Song of Achilles
•Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Films:
•Brokeback Mountain •Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
•The Danish Girl
•Bird on a Wire
•Transamerica
•Fire
•Pretty Woman
References:
1.Auerbach, Nina. Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
2.Barrett, Michele. Women and Writing. London: Women’s Press, 1979.
3.Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: BBC, 1972
4.de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. New York: Vintage, 1974.
5.Fetterley, Judith. The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
6.Forbes, Geraldine. Women in Modern India. (The New Cambridge History of India). New Delhi: Foundation Books, 1996
7.Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Gothic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1979.
8.Jacobus, Mary. Reading Women: Essays in Feminist Criticism. London: Methuen, 1986.
9.Jasbir Jain and Sudha Rai. Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2002
10.Loomba, Ania. Race, Gender and Renaissance Drama. New Delhi: Oxford India Paperbacks. 1992.
11.Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday. 1970.
12.Moers, Ellen. Literary Women: The Great Writers. New York: Doubleday. 1976.
13.Neuberger, Julia. Whatever’s Happening to Women? Promises, Practices and Payoffs. London: Kyle Cathie Limited, 1991.
14.Rich, Adrienne. On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1979. NY, London, 1979.
15.Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid. Recasting Women: Essays inColonial History. Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
16.Sangari, Kumkum. The Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial India. New Delhi: Tulika, 1999.
17.Schor, Naomi. Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine. NY: Routledge, 1989
18.Sedgewick, Eve. Between Men: English Literature & Male Homosocial Desire. Columbia: 1992.
19.Tharu, Susie and K. Lalitha. Ed. Women Writing in India Vols. I & II. New Delhi: OUP, 1995.
20.Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System
i) Name of the Program : M.A. English (Regular) Part II, Semester III, Elective II
ii) Course Code : PAENG302
iii) Course Title : Gendered Perspectives on Literature
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus
v) References and Additional References : Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester -06
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04
2. Scheme of Examination: 4 Questions of 15 marks each
3. Special notes , if any: No
4. Eligibility , if any : No
5. Fee Structure : As per University Structure
Semester End Examination (60 Marks):
Question 1: Essay on Unit 1 (one out of two) : 15 Marks
Question 2: Essay on Unit 2 (one out of two) : 15 Marks
Question 3: Essay on Unit 3 (one out of two) : 15 Marks
Question 4: Essay on Unit 4 (one out of two) :15 Marks
Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (40 Marks):
Sr. No. Particulars Marks
1. One written assignment/research paper on one of the texts suggested by the teacher for Internal Assessment -10 Marks
Presentation on the written assignment/research paper -05 Marks
Viva Voce based on the written assignment/research paper - 05 Marks
Total=20 Marks
2. One Internal Test based on the syllabus (one out of three questions) 20 Marks
Suggestions for Internal Assessment – Written Assignment/Research Paper (One or more of the following texts could be taken individually or in conjunction. These are only suggestions,other texts may be used)
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