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課程名稱

歷史、記憶與美國南方小說
History, Memory, and Southern Novels

開課學期

101-1

授課對象

文學院外國語文學研究所

授課教師

劉亮雅

課號

FL7229

課程識別碼

122 M8250

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

上課地點

備註

初選不開放。專題研究課程。上課時間另行宣布。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：1人

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課程概述

This course will deal with history, memory, and Southern novels. The reading materials for the first half of the semester will cover the works of Maurice Halbwachs, Paul Ricoeur, Andreas Huyssen and Pierre Nora and the critical essays edited by Susannah Radstone. In the second half of this course, the focus will be shifted onto the novels of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Apart from the textual critiques concerning traumatic memories and historical narratives in these works, critical comparisons between the two novelists will also be examined in this course.

課程目標

課程要求

Requirements:
1. regular attendance
2. final exam
3. a thesis proposal

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指定閱讀

參考書目＆指定閱讀

Akoma, Chiji. “The ‘Trick’ of Narratives: History, Memory, and Performance in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” Oral Tradition 15.1 (2000): 3-25.
Assmann, Aleida. “Re-framing Memory. Between Individual and Collective Forms of Constructing the Past.” Performing the Past: Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe. Ed. Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree and Jay Winter. [Amsterdam]: Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
Bouson, J. Brooks. “‘He’s Bringing Along the Dung We Leaving Behind’: The Intergenerational Transmission of Racial Shame and Trauma in Paradise.” Quiet as It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 191-216.
Breu, Christopher. “Privilege’s Mausoleum: The Ruination of White Southern Manhood in The Sound and the Fury.” Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction. Ed. Craig Thompson Friend. London: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 106-28.
Bryant, Cedric Gael. “Mirroring the Radical ‘Other’: The Deacon and Quentin.” Southern Review 29.1 (1993): 30-40.
Burke, Peter. “History as Social Memory.” Memory: History, Culture, and the Mind. Ed. Thomas Butler. Oxford, UK; New York, NY, USA: B. Blackwell, 1989. 97-113.
Caruth, Cathy. “Introduction: The Wound and the Voice.” Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 1-9.
—. “Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History (Freud, Moses and Monotheism).” Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 10-24.
Clarke, Deborah. “Erasing and Inventing Motherhood: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.” Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. 19-50.
Davidson, Rob. "Racial Stock and 8-rocks: Communal Historiography in Toni Morrison's Paradise." Twentieth Century Literature 47:3 (2001): 355-73.
Denard, Carolyn. “The Long, High Gaze: The Mythical Consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-envisioned. Ed. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. 17-30.
Dimino, Andrea. “Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.” Unflinching gaze: Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned. Ed. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. 31-47.
Dobbs, Cynthia. “‘Ruin or Landmark’? Black Bodies as Lieux de Memoire in The Sound and the Fury.” The Faulkner Journal 20.1-2 (2004): 35-51.
Duck, Leigh Anne Duck. “Haunting Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner and Traumatic Memory.” Faulkner in The Twenty-first Century. Ed. Robert W. Hamblin and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. 89-106.
Duvall, John N. “Toni Morrison and the Anxiety of Faulknerian Influence.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-envisioned. Ed. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. 3-16.
Fanon Frantz. “The Woman of Color and the White Man.” Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press, 1967. 41-62.
Fowler, Doreen. “‘Little Sister Death’: The Sound and the Fury and the Denied Unconscious.” Faulkner and Psychology. Ed. Ann J. Abadie and Donald M. Kartiganer. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. 3-20.
Fultz, Lucille P. “Playing with Narrative: Figuring the Reader, Figuring History.” Toni Morrison: Playing with Difference. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 77-98.
Gardner, Philip. “History and Memory.” Hermeneutics, History and Memory. London; New York: Routledge, 2010. 89-115.
Gauthier, Marni. “The Other Side of Paradise: Toni Morrison's (Un)making of Mythic History." African American Review 39:3 (2005): 395-414.
Halbwachs, Maurice. “Historical Memory and Collective Memory.” The Collective Memory. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. 50-87.
—. “Individual Memory and Collective Memory.” The Collective Memory. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. 22-49.
Hilfrich, Carola. “Anti-Exodus: Countermemory, Gender, Race, and Everyday Life in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” Modern Fiction Studies 52.2 (2006): 321-49.
Hutton, Patrick H. “Michel Foucault: History as Counter-Memory.” History as an Art of Memory. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1993. 106-23.
Huyssen, Andreas. “Introduction.” Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2003. 1-10.
Jessee, Sharon. “The Contrapuntal Historiography of Toni Morrison's Paradise: Unpacking the Legacies of the Kansas and Oklahoma All-Black Towns." American Studies: a tri-annual interdisciplinary journal 47:1 (2006): 81-112.
Lester, Cheryl. “Racial Awareness and Arrested Development: The Sound and the Fury and the Great Migration (1915-1928).” The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 123-45.Merrim, Stephanie. “Wonder and the Wounds of ‘Southern’ Histories.” Look away!: the U.S. South in New World studies. Ed. Jon Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 311-32.Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire.” History and Memory in African-American Culture. Ed. Geneviere Fabre and Robert O’Meally. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 284-300.
Messmer, Marietta. “Intra-American Internationality: Morrison Responding to Faulkner.” Internationality in American Fiction: Henry James, William Dean Howells, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison. Ed. Armin Paul Frank and Rolf Lohse. New York; Frankfurt: Lang, 2005. 187-242.
Miller, Nathaniel A. “‘Felt, Not Seen Not Heard:’ Quentin Compson, Modernist Suicide and Southern History.” Studies in the Novel 37.1 (2005): 37-49.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life.” Untimely Meditations. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 57-123.
Peterson, Nancy J. “‘Say make me, remake me’: Toni Morrison and the Reconstruction of African-American History.” Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Ed. Nancy J. Peterson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 201-221.
Ramadanovic, Petar. “Forgetting: The History and the Politics of Forgetting.” Forgetting Futures: On Memory, Trauma, and Identity. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001. 11-30.
Ricoeur, Paul. “Forgetting.” Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 412-56.
—. “The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses.” Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 56-92.
Ross, Stephen David. “Counter-Memory.” Un-forgetting: Re-calling Time Lost. Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Academic Pub., 2009. 129-38. Print. 139-58.
Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe. “Shared Memory: Slavery and Large-group Trauma in Beloved and Paradise.” Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 32-64.
—. “‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’: The Emergent Culture in Faulkner’s Black Voices.” Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 52-76.
Schwarz, Bill. “Memory, Temporality, Modernity: Les lieux de mémoire.” Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Ed. Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. 41-58.
Tally, Justine. “Jazz and Paradise: Pivotal Moments in Black History.” The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 59-74.
Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly. “Southern Monuments, Southern Memory, and the Subversive Mammy.” Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 93-117.
Weinstein, Philip M. “Introduction.” What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xvii-xxix.
—. “Legacies.” What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 83-86.
Whitehead, Anna. “Collective Memory.” Memory. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. 123-152.
—. “Involuntary Memories.” Memory. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. 84-122.
Widdowson, Peter. "The American Dream Refashioned: History, Politics, and Gender in Toni Morrison's Paradise." Journal of American Studies (Cambridge) 35:2 (2001 Aug): 313-335.Winter, Jay. “Sites of Memory.” Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Ed. Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. 312-24.
Wood, Michael. “Proust: The Music of Memory.” Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Ed. Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. 109-22.

參考書目

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	考試	50%
2.	報告	50%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週		Whitehead, Anna. “Involuntary Memories.” Memory. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. 84-122. <br> Whitehead, Anna. “Collective Memory.” Memory. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. 123-152.
第2週		Halbwachs, Maurice. “Individual Memory and Collective Memory.” The Collective Memory. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. 22-49. <br> Halbwachs, Maurice. “Historical Memory and Collective Memory.” The Collective Memory. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. 50-87.
第3週		Ricoeur, Paul. “The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses.” Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 56-92. <br> Ricoeur, Paul. “Forgetting.” Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 412-56.
第4週		Nietzsche, Friedrich. “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life.” Untimely Meditations. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 57-123.
第5週		Burke, Peter. “History as Social Memory.” Memory: History, Culture, and the Mind. Ed. Thomas Butler. Oxford, UK; New York, NY, USA: B. Blackwell, 1989. 97-113. <br> Assmann, Aleida. “Re-framing Memory. Between Individual and Collective Forms of Constructing the Past.” Performing the Past: Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe. Ed. Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree and Jay Winter. [Amsterdam]: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. <br> Gardner, Philip. “History and Memory.” Hermeneutics, History and Memory. London; New York: Routledge, 2010. 89-115.
第6週		Hutton, Patrick H. “Michel Foucault: History as Counter-Memory.” History as an Art of Memory. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1993. 106-23. <br> Ross, Stephen David. “Counter-Memory.” Un-forgetting: Re-calling Time Lost. Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Academic Pub., 2009. 129-38. Print. 139-58. <br> Huyssen, Andreas. “Introduction.” Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2003. 1-10.
第7週		Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire.” History and Memory in African-American Culture. Ed. Geneviere Fabre and Robert O’Meally. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 284-300. <br> Ramadanovic, Petar. “Forgetting: The History and the Politics of Forgetting.” Forgetting Futures: On Memory, Trauma, and Identity. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001. 11-30. <br> Fanon Frantz. “The Woman of Color and the White Man.” Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press, 1967. 41-62.
第8週		Caruth, Cathy. “Introduction: The Wound and the Voice.” Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 1-9. <br> Caruth, Cathy. “Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History (Freud, Moses and Monotheism).” Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 10-24. <br> Merrim, Stephanie. “Wonder and the Wounds of ‘Southern’ Histories.” Look away!: the U.S. South in New World studies. Ed. Jon Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 311-32.
第9週		Schwarz, Bill. “Memory, Temporality, Modernity: Les lieux de mémoire.” Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Ed. Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. 41-58. <br> Wood, Michael. “Proust: The Music of Memory.” Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Ed. Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. 109-22. <br> Winter, Jay. “Sites of Memory.” Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates. Ed. Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. 312-24.
第10週		Messmer, Marietta. “Intra-American Internationality: Morrison Responding to Faulkner.” Internationality in American Fiction: Henry James, William Dean Howells, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison. Ed. Armin Paul Frank and Rolf Lohse. New York; Frankfurt: Lang, 2005. 187-242. <br> Weinstein, Philip M. “Introduction.” What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xvii-xxix. <br> Weinstein, Philip M. “Legacies.” What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 83-86.
第11週		Duvall, John N. “Toni Morrison and the Anxiety of Faulknerian Influence.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-envisioned. Ed. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. 3-16. <br> Denard, Carolyn. “The Long, High Gaze: The Mythical Consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.” Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-envisioned. Ed. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. 17-30. <br> Dimino, Andrea. “Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.” Unflinching gaze: Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned. Ed. Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. 31-47.
第12週		Miller, Nathaniel A. “‘Felt, Not Seen Not Heard:’ Quentin Compson, Modernist Suicide and Southern History.” Studies in the Novel 37.1 (2005): 37-49. <br> Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly. “Southern Monuments, Southern Memory, and the Subversive Mammy.” Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 93-117. <br> Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe. “‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’: The Emergent Culture in Faulkner’s Black Voices.” Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 52-76.
第13週		Duck, Leigh Anne Duck. “Haunting Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner and Traumatic Memory.” Faulkner in The Twenty-first Century. Ed. Robert W. Hamblin and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. 89-106. <br> Dobbs, Cynthia. “‘Ruin or Landmark’? Black Bodies as Lieux de Memoire in The Sound and the Fury.” The Faulkner Journal 20.1-2 (2004): 35-51. <br> Lester, Cheryl. “Racial Awareness and Arrested Development: The Sound and the Fury and the Great Migration (1915-1928).” The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 123-45.
第14週		Fowler, Doreen. “‘Little Sister Death’: The Sound and the Fury and the Denied Unconscious.” Faulkner and Psychology. Ed. Ann J. Abadie and Donald M. Kartiganer. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. 3-20. <br> Clarke, Deborah. “Erasing and Inventing Motherhood: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.” Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. 19-50. <br> Breu, Christopher. “Privilege’s Mausoleum: The Ruination of White Southern Manhood in The Sound and the Fury.” Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction. Ed. Craig Thompson Friend. London: University of Georgia Press, 2009. 106-28.
第15週		Bryant, Cedric Gael. “Mirroring the Radical ‘Other’: The Deacon and Quentin.” Southern Review 29.1 (1993): 30-40. <br> Akoma, Chiji. “The ‘Trick’ of Narratives: History, Memory, and Performance in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” Oral Tradition 15.1 (2000): 3-25. <br> Hilfrich, Carola. “Anti-Exodus: Countermemory, Gender, Race, and Everyday Life in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” Modern Fiction Studies 52.2 (2006): 321-49.
第16週		Fultz, Lucille P. “Playing with Narrative: Figuring the Reader, Figuring History.” Toni Morrison: Playing with Difference. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. 77-98. <br> Jessee, Sharon. “The Contrapuntal Historiography of Toni Morrison's Paradise: Unpacking the Legacies of the Kansas and Oklahoma All-Black Towns." American Studies: a tri-annual interdisciplinary journal 47:1 (2006): 81-112. <br> Tally, Justine. “Jazz and Paradise: Pivotal Moments in Black History.” The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 59-74.
第17週		Davidson, Rob. "Racial Stock and 8-rocks: Communal Historiography in Toni Morrison's Paradise." Twentieth Century Literature 47:3 (2001): 355-73. <br> Peterson, Nancy J. “‘Say make me, remake me’: Toni Morrison and the Reconstruction of African-American History.” Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Ed. Nancy J. Peterson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 201-221. <br> Gauthier, Marni. “The Other Side of Paradise: Toni Morrison's (Un)making of Mythic History." African American Review 39:3 (2005): 395-414.
第18週		Bouson, J. Brooks. “‘He’s Bringing Along the Dung We Leaving Behind’: The Intergenerational Transmission of Racial Shame and Trauma in Paradise.” Quiet as It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 191-216. <br> Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe. “Shared Memory: Slavery and Large-group Trauma in Beloved and Paradise.” Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 32-64. <br> Widdowson, Peter. "The American Dream Refashioned: History, Politics, and Gender in Toni Morrison's Paradise." Journal of American Studies (Cambridge) 35:2 (2001 Aug): 313-335.