課程資訊
課程名稱
 再現與美非女性小說
REPRESENTATION AND AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN'S NOVELS 
開課學期
 95-1 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學研究所  
授課教師
 劉亮雅 
課號
 FL7009 
課程識別碼
 122 M0690 
班次
  
學分
 3 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期二5,6,7(12:20~15:10) 
上課地點
 外研一 
備註
 第二、三類
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：15人 
  
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課程概述

Representation and Afro-American Women’s Novels
Prof. Liang-ya Liou
Fall 2006 Tues. 1:20-4:30 am

Course Description: Since the mid-1970s an outpouring of sophisticated, compelling literature by Afro-American women writers has made a great impact on literary criticism and established itself as an important area of scholarship. This semester-long course will focus on novels by Afro-American female writers Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker. The critical issues we will deal with include: How do the African-American women writers critique and revise the male literary tradition and the white female literary tradition? How do these novels represent the experiences of “otherness”? How do race and gender intersect in these novels’ representation of black experience? How do these authors re-vision and re-name the black female body to contest its representations in the white mainstream literature and the Afro-American male literature. We will also study their aesthetic experimentation and inventiveness in order to explore the relationship between politics and poetics. Afro-American literary theory and feminist theory will be discussed in the first five weeks to provide a critical perspective in reading these novels.



Syllabus:
Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Harper and Row)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper and Row, 1990)
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (Pocket Books, 1982)
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (Plume, 1994)
Toni Morrison, Sula (Plume, 1982)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Plume 1987)
Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (Plume 1982)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (Plume)
Toni Morrison, Jazz (Plume)
Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place (New York: Penguin, 1982)



 

課程目標
 This semester-long course will focus on novels by Afro-American female writers Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker. The critical issues we will deal with include: How do the African-American women writers critique and revise the male literary tradition and the white female literary tradition? How do these novels represent the experiences of “otherness”? How do race and gender intersect in these novels’ representation of black experience? How do these authors re-vision and re-name the black female body to contest its representations in the white mainstream literature and the Afro-American male literature. We will also study their aesthetic experimentation and inventiveness in order to explore the relationship between politics and poetics. Afro-American literary theory and feminist theory will be discussed in the first five weeks to provide a critical perspective in reading these novels. 
課程要求
 Requirements: 1. Class participation
2. at least 4 oral presentations
3. 4 critical reviews
4. a prospectus for the term project
5. a term paper of 15-20 pages 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
  
指定閱讀
  
參考書目
  
評量方式
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課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 9/19  introduction 
第2週
 9/26  Houston Baker, “Discovering America.” Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, 64-112
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Writing, ‘Race,’ and the Difference It Makes.” “Race,” Writing and Difference, 1-20
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Talkin’ That Talk.” “Race,” Writing and Difference, 402-09
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g),” The Signifying Monkey, 44-88.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ‘Criticism in the Jungle.” Black Literature and Black Literary Theory. 1-24.
 
第3週
 10/03  Hazel V. Carby, “Woman’s Era.” Reconstructing Womanhood, 3-19.
Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 231-43.
Luce Irigaray, “Women on the Market.” This Sex Which Is Not One, 170-91.
Elaine Showalter, “A Criticism of Our Own.” The Future of Literary Thoery. 347-69, 434-36.
 
第4週
 10/10  holiday 
第5週
 10/17  Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Powers of Desire. 177-205.
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” Diacritics (Summer 1987): 65-81.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.”
 
第6週
 10/24  Robert Young. “The Jameson Raid.” White Mythologies. 91-118.
Robert Young. “Disorienting Orientalism.” White Mythologies. 119-40.
Robert Young. “The Ambivalence of Bhabha.” White Mythologies. 141-56.
Robert Young. “Spivak: Decolonization, Deconstruction.” White Mythologies. 157-75.
 
第7週
 10/31  James Clifford. “On Ethnographic Authority.” A Cultural Studies Reader. 257-83.
Paula Gunn Allen. “How the West Was Really Won.” A Cultural Studies Reader. 389-401.
Gloria Anzaldua. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” A Cultural Studies Reader. 402-11.
bell hooks, “When I Was a Young Soldier for Revolution.” Talking Back. 10-18.
bell hooks, “Feminism: A Transformational Politic.” Talking Back. 19-27.
bell hooks, “Feminist Politicization.” Talking Back. 105-111.
bell hooks, “The Politics of Radical Black Subjectivity.” Yearning, 15-22.
bell hooks, “Homeplace.” Yearning, 41-48.
bell hooks, “Reflections on Race and Sex.” Yearning, 57-64.
bell hooks, “Saving Black Folk Culture. ” Yearning, 135-143.
bell hooks, “Choosing the Margin as a Space for Radical Openness.” Yearning, 145-53.
 
第8週
 11/07  Bill Ashcroft, et al, “Theory at the Crossroads: Indigenous Theory and Post-colonial Reading.” The Empire Strikes Back. 2nd edition. 115-52.
Bill Ashcroft, et al, “Re-placing Theory: Post-colonial Writing and Literary Theory.” The Empire Strikes Back. 2nd edition. 153-92.
Toni Morrison, “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.” Black Women Writers. 339-45.
Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory.” Inventing the Truth. 103-24.
Toni Morrison, “City Limits, Village Values.” Literature and the Urban Experience
 
第9週
 11/14  Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine 
第10週
 11/21  Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God  
第11週
 11/28  Alice Walker, The Color Purple  
第12週
 12/05  Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye 
第13週
 12/12  Toni Morrison, Sula 
第14週
 12/19  Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon  
第15週
 12/26  Toni Morrison, Beloved 
第16週
 1/02  Toni Morrison, Jazz  
第17週
 1/09  Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place  
第18週
 1/16  NULL