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Elective · 01/ENG/DSE/402T · 2026–27 intake

Gender And Literature

Semester VII · 4 credits · 5 units

Examination scheme & source discrepancies

The source lists 3 hours, 80 end-semester marks and 20 sessional marks.

Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.

See source PDF for the printed marking instructions.

Not present in the owner-supplied 2026–27 PDF (jnvu_ba.pdf), which covers English Major papers only; this paper is retained from the G.D. Memorial College full syllabus copy.

Unit IThe Picture of Dorian Gray

1 entry

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Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Source syllabus · page 124

Unit IIVindication of Rights of Women, Introduction and Chapter 2

1 entry

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Mary Wollstonecraft: “Vindication of Rights of Women” (Introduction and Chapter 2 only)

Source syllabus · page 124

Unit IIIThe Bluest Eye / Purdah1 and more

9 entries

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Tony Morrison: The Bluest Eye. Imtiaz Dharker (poems) “Purdah1”, “Minority”, “Battle Line” (from Nine Indian Poets. Ed. Iunice de Souza, OUP, 1997) “Honour Killing”, “Stitched”, “Tongue”, “Front Door”, “At Lahore Karhai”,

Source syllabus · page 124

Unit IVPinjar (trans. Khushwant Singh) / My Story

2 entries

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Amrita Pritam: Pinjar. Trans. Khushwant Singh Kamala Das: My Story,

Source syllabus · page 124

Unit VWhen I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife / Difficult Daughters

2 entries

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Meena Kandasami. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife. Manju Kapur. Difficult Daughters.

Extraction artefacts were removed for readability. The manifest retains the raw transcription; compare the source PDF for exact wording.

Source syllabus · page 124