課程名稱 |
再現與美非女性小說 Representation and Afro-american Women's Novels |
開課學期 |
100-1 |
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 |
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學分 |
3 |
全/半年 |
半年 |
必/選修 |
選修 |
上課時間 |
星期一5,6,7(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 |
課程編號:122 M0690 再現與美非女性小說 班級: 教師: 劉亮雅
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 and Toni Morrison. 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.
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課程目標 |
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 and Toni Morrison. 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 |
1. Class participation
2. 5 oral presentations
3. 4 critical reviews
4. a prospectus for the term project
5. a term paper of 15-20 pages
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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
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第3週 |
10/03 |
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.
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第4週 |
10/10 |
holiday |
第5週 |
10/17 |
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” Diacritics (Summer 1987): 65-81.
Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Powers of Desire. 177-205.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.”
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第6週 |
10/24 |
Toni, Morrison. Playing in the Dark. |
第7週 |
10/31 |
Mary Louise Pratt, “Introduction: Criticism in the Contact Zone.” Imperial Eyes. 1-11.
Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory.” Inventing the Truth. 103-24.
Toni Morrison, “City Limits, Village Values.” Literature and the Urban Experience
Toni Morrison, “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.” Black Women Writers. 339-45.
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 Scholarship.” Talking Back. 42-48.
bell hooks, “Feminist Politicization.” Talking Back. 105-111.
bell hooks, “Overcoming White Supremacy.” Talking Back. 112-19.
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.
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第8週 |
11/07 |
Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine |
第9週 |
11/14 |
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
第10週 |
11/21 |
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye |
第11週 |
11/28 |
Toni Morrison, Sula |
第12週 |
12/05 |
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon |
第13週 |
12/12 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved |
第14週 |
12/19 |
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Toni Morrison, Jazz
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第15週 |
12/26 |
Toni Morrison, Jazz |
第16週 |
1/02 |
Toni Morrison, Paradise |
第17週 |
1/09 |
Toni Morrison, Paradise |
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