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課程名稱	專題研究 Independent Study
開課學期	107-1
授課對象	外國語文學研究所
授課教師	劉亮雅
課號	FL7321
課程識別碼	122 M8800
班次	05
學分	1.0
全/半年	半年
必/選修	選修
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備註	初選不開放。上課時間地點另行宣布。限碩士班以上總人數上限：1人

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課程概述	Course Description The issue of race has been one of the most crucial themes for scholars who study and analyze Toni Morrison’s novels. Various types of racial problems in Morrison’s works meticulously represent the struggles, oppressions and traumas of black people, further leading us to trace back their unmemorable ethnic history. With the discourse of race as a large framework, this course would also bring the perspective of disability studies in reading and analyzing Morrison’s first and latest (to the date) novels. Disability studies is a relatively new academic discipline which inspects the nature, meaning and consequences of disability studies as a social construct. In effect, the approach and focus of disability studies are interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary which include humanities, sciences, social sciences, feminism, race and gender, etc. By connecting disability studies with Morrison’s works, we can see that race and gender are not immobile feature that inscribed in our bodies but have potentials to overthrow all the commonly accepted conceptions of white normalcy.
課程目標	Course Objectives This course aims to interpret Morrison’s novels by adopting disability studies as an approach so as to challenge the conventional outlook on disability as an individual defect that can be recovered purely through medical restoration, define the complex contents of disability that often intertwine with cultural, political, economic or social factors, and probe into those unseen disabilities that are unable to be estimated or clarified by biological science, such as psychological exclusion and mental illness caused by racism. Additionally, it is also important to discuss about how to increase accessibility and possibility for those who bear racist, societal and sexist oppression like the characters in Morrison’s novels to deal with the trauma and acquire the equality of life.
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課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週		Siebers, Tobin. “Disability, Pain, and the Politics of Minority Identity.” Foundations of Disability Studies. Ed. Matthew Wappett and Katrina Arndt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 17-28. Print. Samuels, Ellen. “Introduction: The Crisis of Identification.” Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race. New York: NYU Press, 2014. 1-24. Print.
第2週		Taylor, Ashley. “The Discourse of Pathology: Reproducing the Able Mind through Bodies of Color.” Hapatia 30.1 (2015): 181-98. Print. Connor, David F. and Beth A. Ferri. “Historicizing Dis/Ability: Creating Normalcy, Containing Difference.” Foundations of Disability Studies. Ed. Matthew Wappett and Katrina Arndt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 29-67. Print.
第3週		Campbell, Fiona Kumari. “The Project of Ableism.” Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 3-15. Print. Campbell, Fiona Kumari. “Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within.” Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 16-29. Print.
第4週		Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press, 2008. Print.
第5週		Gillborn, David. “Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and the Primacy of Racism: Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in Education.” Qualitative Inquiry 21.3 (2015): 277-87. Print. 蔡佩含。〈多重文化語境下的「殘疾」身體—以Lifok（黃貴潮）《遲我十年—Lifok生活日記》的生命經驗為例〉，《台灣文學研究學報》25:159-82。2017。
第6週		Yancy, George. What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.
第7週		Morris, Michael. “Standard White: Dismantling White Normativity.” Calif. L. Rev. 104.4 (2016): 949-1009. Print.
第8週		Bednarska, Dominika. Ability Underneath: Bodies in the Literary Imagination. Diss. University of California, Berkeley, 2011. Web. 1 Jan. 2011.
第9週		Kudick, Catherine J. “Disability History: Why We Need Another ‘Other’.” The American Historical Review 108.3 (2003): 763-93. Print. Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Print.
第10週		Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Print.
第11週		Hall, Alice. “Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Works of Toni Morrison.” Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 49-91. Print.
第12週		Quayson, Ato. “Toni Morrison: Disability, Ambiguity and Perspectival Modulations.” Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation. New York: Columbia UP, 2007. 86-114. Print.
第13週		Amiri, Mehdi. “Differend in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Advances in Language and Literary Studies 8.3 (2017): 181-84. Print. Beneduce, Roberto. “Traumatic Pasts and the Historical Imagination: Symptoms of Loss, Postcolonial Suffering, and Counter-Memories among African Migrants.” Transcultural Psychiatry 53.3 (2016): 261-85. Print.
第14週		Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe. “Inherited and Generational Trauma: Coming of Age in The Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon.” Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2010. 59-89. Print. Rahmani, Ayda. “Black Feminism: What Women of Color Went Through in Toni Morrison’s Selected Novels.” International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 4.3 (2015): 61-65. Print.
第15週		Gras, Delphine. “Post What? Disarticulating Post-Discourses in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.” Humanities 5.4 (2016): 1-18. Print. Ramirez, Manuela Lopez. “What You Do to Children Matters: Toxic Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.” The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies 22 (2015): 107-119. Print.
第16週		Martin-Salvan, Paula. “The Secret of Bride’s Body in Toni Morrison’s God help the Child.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, n.d. Web. 9 May 2018. Ramirez, Manuela Lopez. “‘Childhood Cuts Festered and Never Scabbed Over’: Child Abuse in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.” Alicante Journal of English Studies 29 (2016): 145-64. Print.