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課程名稱 |
後殖民理論: 批判性之導讀
Postcolonial Theory and Its Discontents |
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開課學期 |
102-1 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學研究所 |
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授課教師 |
蕭立君 |
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課號 |
FL7139 |
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課程識別碼 |
122 M5590 |
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學分 |
3 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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上課時間 |
星期二7,8,9(14:20~17:20) |
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上課地點 |
外研一 |
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備註 |
第一、三類。中英雙語授課。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：12人 |
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Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1021grad_hsiao_2013 |
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課程概述 |
The expansion, together with the eventual ascent, of postcolonial studies to a paradigmatic status on contemporary intellectual scene in recent decades doesn’t seem to help clarify many of the fundamental questions about the field. There have been theoretical debates over the parameters, definition(s), methodologies or epistemological grounds, speaking positions, the locality, etc. of the postcolonial. This course will, then, situate postcolonial studies or, more specifically, postcolonial theory, in a series of critical debates, a framework of theoretical engagements not limited to literary studies, but across the humanities. |
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課程目標 |
The goal of our graduate seminar is a fairly modest one: Rather than offering a final, concluding note on the unsettled questions raised throughout the short (pre)history of the field, it would be content with grasping what are at stake in the debates, the contour and genealogy of the contested issues. The seminar will begin with Bart Moore-Gilbert’s and Ania Loomba’s lucid introductions to the background of the postcolonial “controversies” as well as the basic concepts and keywords of postcolonial studies. Through excerpts from Robert Young’s Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, we shall examine the historical contexts and the intellectual genealogies of the colonial/postcoloinal before tackling the difficult writings of Bhabha, Said, and Spivak and sorting through the poststructuralist undercurrents in what we generally conceive as postcolonial theory. We will then move on to address the challenges posed by Marxists and other critics of postcolonial theory by examining the seminal special issue of the journal Social Text 31/32 (1992). Toward the end of the semester, the seminar will attempt to put the theories to the test through our readings of Ear Lovelace’s novel The Dragon Can’t Dance. Students will be encouraged to review the trajectories of our discussions, focusing on one of the often entangled issues (such as hybridity, diaspora, the postcolonial moment, decolonization, etc.) raised in our readings while working toward their seminar papers. |
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課程要求 |
Requirements:
Weekly written response: Each student is supposed to hand in at least 10 written responses (each of 1-2 pages) to the readings of your choice by the end of the semester. The success of our graduate seminar depends in part on the active participation of students. Based on your responses prepared beforehand, our in-class discussions will more likely be well thought-out and quality exchanges of ideas. Responses are due at the very beginning of each class.
Report and presentation: Every student is expected to do an oral report (15-20 minutes) on one of the readings. The report should consist of more detailed information, in both the forms of summaries and thoughtful responses, than your weekly responses. We’ll determine who will be in charge of which reading in the first couple of weeks. Toward the end of the semester, each participant is supposed to present his/her paper proposal or work in progress to the class.
Grading: Your final grade will be calculated according to the following breakdown:
Weekly responses 25%
Report and presentation 15%
Participation 15%
Seminar paper 45%
The following is a projected course schedule (please see the attached list of required texts for detailed information of the works by listed authors):
I. Introducing the Postcolonial Discontents and a Brief Intellectual History:
Week 1: Introduction to the course
Week 2: Loomba, “Introduction”; Moore-Gilbert, Chapter 1
Week 3: Selections from The Empire Writes Back and Lazarus’s Postcolonial Literary Studies
Week 4: Selections from Loomba and Moore-Gilbert
Week 5: Young, “Formation of Postcolonial Theory”; excerpts on anticolonial history
II. The Poststructuralist Affair:
Week 6: Selection from Said, Orientalism
Week 7: Continued readings from Orientalism; Said, “Orientalism Reconsidered”
Week 8: Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Week 9: Selections from Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and The Spivak Reader
Week 10: Continued readings from Selections from The Spivak Reader; Bhabha, Location of Culture
Week 11: Continued readings from Bhabha; selections from Fanon
Week 12: Continued readings from Bhabha; selections from Fanon
III. The Marxist Challenge and Other Critiques:
Week 13: Introduction to the special issue, Social Text 31/32 (1992); MacClintock; Shohat; Parry
Week 14: Ahmad, “The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality”; Dirlik; Hall; Jameson
Week 15: Gikandi and selections from The Postcolonial and the Global.
IV. Toward a Postcolonial Contribution:
Week 16: The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel
Week 17: Presentations of works in progress or proposals of seminar papers
Week 18: Due day of the final version of your seminar paper
* Please note that the course schedule and readings are subject to change, pending on student needs, the progress of our seminar, or unforeseen circumstances.
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參考書目 |
Bibliography:
Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London: Verso, 1992.
---. “The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality.” Race & Class. 36.3 (1995): 1-20.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?” Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Ed. Padmini Mongia. London: Arnold, 1996. 55-71.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge, 1989.
---. The Post-colonial Studies Reader. 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 2006.
Bhabha, Homi K. “DissemiNation” Nation and Narration. Ed. Homi Bhabha. London: Routledge, 1990. 291-322.
---. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
Dirlik, Arif. “The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism.” Critical Inquiry 20 (Winter 1994): 328-56.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
---. The Wretched of the Earth. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. Trans. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1963.
Gikandi, Simon. “Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality.” South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (summer 2001): 627-658.
Hall, Stuart. “When Was ‘the Post-colonial’?: Thinking at the Limit.” The Post-colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons. Ed. Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti. London: Routledge, 1996. 242-59.
Huggan, Graham. The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. London: Routledge, 2001.
Krishnaswamy, Revathi, and John C. Hawley, eds. The Postcolonial and the Global. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Jameson, Frederic. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.” Social Text 15 (Fall 1986): 65-88.
Lazarus, Neil, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2004.
Loomba, Ania. Colonialism / Postcolonialism. London: Routledge, 1998.
Lovelace, Earl. The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel. New York: Persea Books, 1998.
MacClintock, Anne. “The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Postcolonialism’.” Social Text 31/32 (1992): 84-98.
Moore-Gilbert, Bart. Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics. London: Verso, 1997.
Parry, Benita. “Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse.” Oxford Literary Review 9 (1987): 27-58.
Prakash, Gyan. “Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography.” Social Text 31/32 (1992): 8-19.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.
---. “Orientalism Reconsidered.” Cultural Critique 1 (1985): 89-107.
Shohat, Ella. “Notes on the ‘Post-Colonial.” Social Text 31/32 (1992): 99-113.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988. 271-313.
---. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1999.
---. The Spivak Reader. Ed. Landry, Donna and Gerald MacLean. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Young, Robert J. C. White Mythologies: Writing History and the West. London: Routledge, 1990.
---. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.
Recommended websites:
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/index.html
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Intro.html
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/index.html
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第1週 |
9/10 |
Introduction to the course |
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第2週 |
9/17 |
Loomba, “Introduction”; Moore-Gilbert, Chapter 1 |
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第3週 |
9/24 |
Selections from The Empire Writes Back and Lazarus’s Postcolonial Literary Studies |
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第4週 |
10/01 |
Selections from Loomba and Moore-Gilbert |
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第5週 |
10/08 |
Young, “Formation of Postcolonial Theory”; excerpts on anticolonial history |
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第6週 |
10/15 |
Selection from Said, Orientalism |
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第7週 |
10/22 |
Continued readings from Orientalism; Said, “Orientalism Reconsidered” |
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第8週 |
10/29 |
Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” |
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第9週 |
11/05 |
Selections from Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and The Spivak Reader |
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第10週 |
11/12 |
Continued readings from Selections from The Spivak Reader; Bhabha, Location of Culture |
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第11週 |
11/19 |
Continued readings from Bhabha; selections from Fanon |
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第12週 |
11/26 |
Continued readings from Bhabha; selections from Fanon |
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第13週 |
12/03 |
Introduction to the special issue, Social Text 31/32 (1992); MacClintock; Shohat; Parry |
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第14週 |
12/10 |
Ahmad, “The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality”; Dirlik; Hall; Jameson |
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第15週 |
12/17 |
Gikandi and selections from The Postcolonial and the Global. |
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第16週 |
12/24 |
The Dragon Can't Dance: A Novel |
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第17週 |
12/31 |
Presentations of works in progress or proposals of seminar papers |
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第18週 |
1/7 |
Due day of the final version of your seminar paper |
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