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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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Week 1 |
2/23 |
Introduction to course objectives |
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Week 2 |
3/01 |
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Imperial Trajectories" and "End of Empire?" from Empires in World History; Neferti Tadiar, "Empire" |
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Week 3 |
3/08 |
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Preface from Empire; Timothy Brennan, "The Empire's New Clothes"; plus Critical Response I by Hardt and Negri; and Critical Response II by Brennan; critical response #1 due at the beginning of class |
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Week 4 |
3/15 |
Gauri Viswanathan, from Masks of Conquest; Simon Gikandi, from Maps of Englishness |
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Week 5 |
3/22 |
Gerald Graff, from Professing Literature: An Institutional History; Gaurav Desai, "Rethinking English: Postcolonial English Studies" |
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Week 6 |
3/29 |
Helen Tiffin, "'Lie Back and Think of England'"; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "The Burden of English"; critical response #2 due at the beginning of class |
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Week 7 |
4/05 |
Class cancelled (holiday) |
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Week 8 |
4/12 |
C.L.R. James, from You Don’t Play with Revolution |
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Week 9 |
4/19 |
Class cancelled (instructor away) |
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Week 10 |
4/26 |
Earl Lovelace, Salt (pages 3-93) |
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Week 11 |
5/03 |
Oscar Campomanes, "New Formations of Asian American Studies and the Question of U.S. Imperialism"; Victor Bascara, from Model-Minority Imperialism; critical response #3 due at the beginning of class |
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Week 12 |
5/10 |
Jessica Hagedorn, from Dream Jungle (pages 3-4; 174-285); plus term paper guidelines |
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Week 13 |
5/17 |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Righting Wrongs"; critical response #4 due at the beginning of class |
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Week 14 |
5/24 |
Atom Egoyan, "In Other Words: Poetic Licence and the Incarnation of History"; Atom Egoyan, dir., Ararat; plus term paper proposals |
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Week 15 |
5/31 |
Bill Readings, Introduction to The University in Ruins; critical response #5 due at the beginning of class |
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Week 16 |
6/07 |
In-class writing exercise |
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Week 17 |
6/14 |
Review; plus consultation |
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Week 18 |
6/21 |
Wrap-up; term paper due at the beginning of class |