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課程名稱	再現與美非女性小說 Representation and Afro-american Women's Novels
開課學期	111-2
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	3.0
全/半年	半年
必/選修	選修
上課時間	星期二6,7,8(13:20~16:20)
上課地點	外研三
備註	本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。第二、三類。限碩士班以上總人數上限：12人

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課程概述	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 five novels by 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.待補
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 five novels by 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.待補
課程要求	1. Class participation 2. several oral presentations 3. 2 critical reviews 4. a term paper of 15-20 pages
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指定閱讀	Morrison, Toni. Beloved (Plume, 1987). -----. “City Limits, Village Values.” Literature and the Urban Experience. -----. The Bluest Eye (Plume, 1970) -----. Jazz (Plume, 1992) -----. “The Site of Memory.” Inventing the Truth. 103-24. -----. Song of Solomon (Plume 1977) -----. Sula (Plume, 1973)
參考書目	Baker, Houston A. Jr. Blues, ideology, and Afro-American Literature: a Vernacular Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: a Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. -----,ed. “Race,” Writing and Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. -----,ed. Black Literature and Literary Theory. New York: Methuen, 1984. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr and Gene Andrew Jarret, ed. The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Graham, Maryemma. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hooks, bell. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1989. -----. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990. Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. New York : Routledge, 1992. Mitchell, Angelyn and Danille K. Taylor, ed. The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Tally, Justine, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. Young, Robert. White Mythologies. New York: Routledge, 1990.
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課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	2/21	Introduction
第2週	2/28	Holiday
第3週	3/7	Elaine Showalter, “A Criticism of Our Own.” The Future of Literary Thoery. 347-69, 434-36. Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 231-43. bell hooks, “When I Was a Young Soldier for Revolution.” Talking Back, 10-18. bell hooks, “Feminism: A Transformational Politic.” Talking Back, 19-27. Angelyn Mitchell, and Danille K. Taylor. “Introduction.” The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s Literature. 1-12.
第4週	3/14	Dana Williams, “Contemporary African American Women Writers.” The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s Literature.71-86. Robert J. Patterson, “African American Feminist Theories and Literary Criticism.” The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s Literature. 87-105. 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5週	3/21	Toni, Morrison. Playing in the Dark.
第6週	3/28	Luce Irigaray, “Women on the Market.” This Sex Which Is Not One, 170-91. Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” Diacritics (Summer 1987): 65-81. Marilyn Mobley McKenzie. “Spaces for Readers: the Novels of Toni Morrison.” The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. 221-32. Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory.” Inventing the Truth, 103-24.
第7週	4/4	Holiday
第8週	4/11	Toni Morrison, “City Limits, Village Values.” Literature and the Urban Experience, 35-43. Toni Morrison, “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation.” Black Women Writers,339-45. Toni Morrison, “Home.” The House That Race Built, 3-12 Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (Plume, 1970)
第9週	4/18	Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
第10週	4/25	Toni Morrison, Sula (Plume, 1973)
第11週	5/2	Toni Morrison, Sula Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Plume 1977)
第12週	5/9	Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Plume 1977)
第13週	5/16	Toni Morrison, Beloved (Plume, 1987)
第14週	5/23	Toni Morrison, Beloved (Plume, 1987) Toni Morrison, Jazz (Plume)
第15週	5/30	Toni Morrison, Jazz (Plume)