課程資訊
課程名稱
亞裔北美文學
Asian North American Literature 
開課學期
109-2 
授課對象
文學院  外國語文學系  
授課教師
傅友祥 
課號
FL4046 
課程識別碼
102E45640 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
必修 
上課時間
星期四7,8,9(14:20~17:20) 
上課地點
博雅304 
備註
本課程以英語授課。非外文系學生限國際學生或具備中高級寫作能力。歡迎亞裔美加學生加簽。第一堂課不到視為退選。
限學士班三年級以上
總人數上限:12人
外系人數限制:7人 
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http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1092FL4046_ 
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課程概述

Instructor: Dr. Bennett Fu
Email: bennettfu@ntu.edu.tw
Office hours: By appointment for time and place


Course Description

This course is an introductory survey of Asian North American literature and criticism. Given their similar immigration policies and cultural specificities, North America here includes Canada and the U.S.A., and Asia here is understood as East Asia as South(east) Asia has another complicated British or European colonial history. Since this is an introductory class in nature, we will read the excerpts and a long novel from major works from the late 19th century to the present. While discerning the broad scope of Asian American literature as a whole, we will emphasize the recurring themes, the bi-cultural contexts in which these writers wrote, and their literary experimentation and innovation over the time. The readings and discussions in this class aim to give the students insights into the presence and influence of identity politics from multinational and multicultural perspectives. With thorny issues such as gender, race, class, our lectures, readings, and discussions will attend to how the role of politics has been playing throughout our history, geography, and curriculum, thus influencing our sense of society.

To supplement our readings of literary texts, we will study selected works of criticism, history, and social sciences. As heterogeneity is a crucial concept in defining the umbrella term “Asian American,” an important goal will be to understand Asian North Americans as diverse groups and individuals given their different historical and cultural backgrounds. Not only will we study East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Eurasian) North American (American and Canadian) writers, but we will also attend to varieties of sexual, regional, and religious identity, noting especially how these are shaped in and through history. The course also attempts to cover all genres (short story, poetry, fiction, prose, graphics) to give the students a panoramic view of the “heterogeneity” in this quite established discipline.
 

課程目標
Course Objectives

• To read closely from the classics and new writings of Asian American literature;
• To become familiar with the broad outlines of Asian American/Canadian literary history;
• To learn the intellectual, historical, and biographical backgrounds necessary to understand Asian American literature;
• To understand the genres, forms, conventions, and other special uses of language in Asian American literature;
• To understand the influence of race, class, and sexuality on literary production and interpretation;
• To practice the skills of critical reading, expository writing, intelligent discussion, and oral presentation of research.
 
課程要求
Important Reminders

 If a student is absent from the first class, he/she is automatically removed from the roster.
 I have zero tolerance with plagiarism. If you are caught plagiarizing in your assignment, you will automatically flunk the course and will be reported to the University for such unethical academic misconduct.
 The papers should be prepared in accordance with the MLA style. All the reports have to be word-processed. If you do not know the MLA format, you are strongly encouraged to discuss it with me before you write.
 Late papers after the due date will not receive a grade. Online submissions are not acceptable, either.
 If you skip more than three times (including three) without the official application for leave, you will automatically flunk the course.
 All the excepts of the stories and chosen essays are compiled in the course pack, and you need to purchase it. Please read the assigned texts before attending class for fruitful discussions.
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 
指定閱讀
待補 
參考書目
待補 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Two short papers (6-7 pages)  
50% 
 
2. 
Presentation, participation, and attendance 
50% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/25  Introduction 
第2週
3/04  Critical Review; Introduction and Survey 
第3週
3/11  Assigning Topics for Presentation; Film Crazy Rich Asian  
第4週
3/18  Discussion of Film; Critical Review 
第5週
3/25  Chinese American: Who Is Irish?; David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly; David Eng: “Introduction” Racial Castration 
第6週
4/01  Chinese Canadian: Wayson Choy “The Jade Penoy”; Chinese Canadian: SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café; Ien Ang “On Not Speaking Chinese” 
第7週
4/08  Chinese Canadian: Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand
Chinese Canadian: Lien Chao “Children of Immigrants”; “Chinese Accent”; “Choy Suey and Exotic Chinese Gene”
Theoretical Essay: Bennett Fu “Morphological Transcripts”
 
第8週
4/15  Reading Week  
第9週
4/22  Eurasian: Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance & Other Writings; Eurasian: Fred Wah’s The Diamond Grill & Fake It 
第10週
4/29  Japanese American: Hisaye Yamamoto’s “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara”
Japanese Canadian: Roy Miki’s essay (first paper due)
 
第11週
5/06  Korean American: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee; Korean American: Chang-Rae Lee Native Speaker (excerpt) 
第12週
5/13  Vietnamese American: Le Thi Diem Thuy’s “The Gangster We Are All Looking for”; Vietnamese American: Monique Truong The Book of Salt or Kim Thuy’s Ru 
第13週
5/20  Asian Hawaiian: Eric Chock “The Mango Tree”; “Termites”; “Poem for My Father”Asian Hawaiian: Milton Murayama “The Substitute” Youngsuk Chae “Beyond Ethnicity” 
第14週
5/27  David Wong Louie The Barbarians Are Coming; Sau-ling Wong Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance” 
第15週
6/03  The Barbarians Are Coming; Suching Huang “Gastronomic Mobility and Model Minority Discourse”  
第16週
6/10  The Barbarians Are Coming; Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi “Intro” from Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature 
第17週
6/17  Preparation for Final (alternative)  
第18週
6/24  Final Paper Due