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課程名稱	專題研究二 Independent Study (Ⅱ)
開課學期	111-2
授課對象	外國語文學研究所
授課教師	劉亮雅
課號	FL8067
課程識別碼	122 D2250
班次	01
學分	1.0
全/半年	半年
必/選修	選修
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備註	初選不開放。上課時間地點請洽授課教師。限博士班總人數上限：1人

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課程概述	This course will investigate the politics of women’s relationships in four novels—Henry James’s The Bostonians (1886), Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies (1943), and Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973). In particular, it focuses on the novels’ various strands of criticism and their sociopolitical backgrounds to help the student explore different approaches to the theme of women’s relationships in these authors’ works. The course is divided into four sections based on the four novels. In each section, the student will read the novels’ extant criticism and the relevant historical and political contexts.
課程目標	This course aims to provide theoretical and historical knowledge about women’s relationships in four novels—Henry James’s The Bostonians (1886), Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies (1943), and Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973). Examining this area of knowledge, the course will provide the student with analytical tools to explore the following questions regarding the four novels: What causes the conflicts and tension between women in late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American literature? How do women respond to or deal with such conflicts? How do interpersonal conflicts between women reveal and complicate political issues? Can women’s ways of dealing with these conflicts offer solutions to or evaluations of political problems? Can or should conflicts between women be resolved or reconciled?
課程要求	a. Regular attendance b. Participation and discussion c. Thesis Proposal
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週次	日期	單元主題
第1週		de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. 1835. Trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Abbasi, Pyeaam. “Henry James and the New Woman: A Feminist Reading of The Bostonians.” 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 19.1 (2013): 119 – 127
第2週		Goldfarb, Clare. “Female Friendship: An Alternative to Marriage and the Family in Henry James's Fiction?” Colby Quarterly 26.4 (1990): 205-212. Lansdown, Richard. “Notes.” The Bostonians, edited by Richard Lansdown. New York: Penguin, 2000. 379-397. Scott, Anthony. “Basil, Olive, and Verena: The Bostonians and the Problem of Politics.” Arizona Quarterly 49.1 (1993): 49-72.
第3週		Daugherty, Sarah B. “Henry James, George Sand, and The Bostonians: Another Curious Chapter in the Literary History of Feminism.” The Henry James Review 10.1 (1989): 42-49 Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America.” Signs 1.1 (1975): 1-29. Fetterley, Judith. “The Bostonians: Henry James’s Eternal Triangle.” The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. London: Indiana University Press, 1978. 101-153.
第4週		Pippin, Robert B. “A Kind of Morbid Modernity.” Henry James and Modern Moral Life. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 23-53. Davis, Sara deSaussure. “Feminist Sources in The Bostonians.” American Literature 50.4 (1979): 570-587. Wardley, Lynn. “Woman’s Voice, Democracy’s Body, and The Bostonians.” ELH 56. 3 (1989): 639-665.
第5週		Ahmed, Sara. “‘She’ll Wake Up One of These Days and Find She’s Turned into a Nigger’: Passing through Hybridity.” Theory, Culture & Society 16.2 (1999): 87-105. Berg, Allison. Mothering The Race: Women’s Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
第6週		Gaines, Kevin. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Kaplan, Carla. “Introduction.” Passing: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism, edited by Carla Kaplan, New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. ix-xxvii.
第7週		Landry, Jordan. “Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 60.1 (2006): 25-52. Nisetich, Rebecca. “Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case.” African American Review 46. 2/3 (2013): 345-361. Robinson, Amy. “It Takes One to Know One: Passing and Communities of Common.” Critical Inquiry (1994) 20.4: 715-736
第8週		Rottenberg, Catherine. “Passing: Race, Identification, and Desire.” Criticism 45.4 (2003): 435-452 Wald, Gayle. Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2000.
第9週		Friedman, Max Paul. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against The Germans of Latin America In World War II. New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. Gentile, Kathy Justice. “‘The Dreaded Voyage Into the World’: Jane Bowles and Her Serious Ladies.” Studies in American Fiction 22.1 (1994): 47-60. Daly, Glyn. “Marxism.” The Routledge companion to critical theory. Eds. Simon Malpas and Paul Wake. New York : Routledge, 2006. 28-42.
第10週		Gentile, Kathy Justice. “‘The Dreaded Voyage Into the World’: Jane Bowles and Her Serious Ladies.” Studies in American Fiction 22.1 (1994): 47-60. Langley, Lester D. “The World Crisis and the Good Neighbor Policy in Panama, 1936-41.” The Americas 24.2 (1967): 137-152. Roosevelt, Franklin D. “Our Foreign Policy: A Democratic View.” Foreign Affairs 6.4 (1928): 573-586.
第11週		Pike, Fredrick B. FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Years Of Generally Gentle Chaos. Austin: U of Texas Press, 1995. Price, A. Grenfell. “White Settlement in the Panama Canal Zone.” Geographical Review 25.1 (1935): 1-11
第12週		Merrill, Dennis. Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth- Century Latin America. Chapel Hill N.C.: U of North Carolina, 2009. Lougy, Robert E. “‘Some Fun in the Mud’: Decrepitude and Salvation in the World of Jane Bowles.” A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles. Ed. Jennie Skerl. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. 119-133.
第13週		Bambara, Toni Cade. “Preface”. The Black Woman: An Anthology. Ed. Toni Cade Bambara. New York: New American Library, 1970. 1-8. Bond, Jean Carey and Patricia Peery. “Is the Black Male Castrated?” The Black Woman: An Anthology. Ed. Toni Cade Bambara. New York: New American Library, 1970. 141-148. Douglas, Christopher. “Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and Cultural Nationalisms, 1965–1975.” A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 184-219.
第14週		Morrison, Toni. “Memory, Creation, and Writing.” Thought 59. 235 (1984): 385-390. ---. “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.” Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation. Ed. Mari Evans. New York: Doubleday, 1984. 339-345. ---. “What the Black Woman Thinks about Women’s Lib.” What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction. Ed. Carolyn C. Denard. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 18-30.
第15週		La Rue, Linda. “The Black Movement and Women’s Liberation.” The Black Scholar 1.7 (1970): 36-42. Lindesy, Kay. “The Black Woman as a Woman.” The Black Woman: An Anthology. Ed. Toni Cade Bambara. New York: New American Library, 1970. 103-108. Liou, Liang-ya. “‘New World Black and New World Woman’: The Pariah Sula.” Race, Gender, and Representation: Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved. Taipei, Taiwan: Bookman, 2000. 57-93.