課程資訊
課程名稱
再現與美非女性小說
Representation and Afro-american Women's Novels 
開課學期
105-1 
授課對象
學程  婦女與性別研究學程  
授課教師
劉亮雅 
課號
FL7009 
課程識別碼
122 M0690 
班次
 
學分
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
外研一 
備註
本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。第二、三類課程。
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 novels by Afro-American female writers Zora Neale Hurston and 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 seven weeks to provide a critical perspective in reading these novels. 

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 novels by Afro-American female writers Zora Neale Hurston and 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 seven weeks to provide a critical perspective in reading these novels. 
課程要求
1. Class participation
2. several oral presentations
3. 3 critical reviews
4. a prospectus for the term project
5. a term paper of 15-20 pages
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 
指定閱讀
Hurston, Zora Neale. Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Harper and Row, 1934)
-----. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper and Row, 1990)
Morrison, Toni. Beloved (Plume, 1987).
-----. “City Limits, Village Values.” Literature and the Urban Experience.
-----. The Bluest Eye (Plume, 1970)
-----. Jazz (Plume, 1992)
-----. A Mercy (Plume, 2008)
-----. Paradise (Plume, 1997)
-----. “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.
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.
 
評量方式
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課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/13  Introduction 
第2週
9/20  Houston Baker, “Discovering America.” Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature, 64-112
Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 231-43.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Writing ‘Race,’ and the Difference It Makes.” “Race,” Writing and Difference, 1-20
 
第3週
9/27  Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ‘Criticism in the Jungle.” Black Literature and Black Literary Theory, 1-24
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g),” The Signifying Monkey, 44-88.
Angelyn Mitchell and Danille K. Taylor. “Introduction.” The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s Literature. 1-12.
 
第4週
10/04  Luce Irigaray, “Women on the Market.” This Sex Which Is Not One, 170-91.
Elaine Showalter, “A Criticism of Our Own.” The Future of Literary Thoery. 347-69, 434-36.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” 51-80.
 
第5週
10/11  Dana Williams, “Contemporary African American Women Writers,” 71-86.
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” Diacritics (Summer 1987): 65-81.
Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory.” Inventing the Truth, 103-24.
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.
bell hooks, “When I Was a Young Soldier for Revolution.” Talking Back, 10-18.
bell hooks, “Feminism: A Transformational Politic.” Talking Back, 19-27.
bell hooks, “Feminist Scholarship.” Talking Back, 42-48.
bell hooks, “Feminist Politicization.” Talking Back, 105-111.
bell hooks, “Overcoming White Supremacy.” Talking Back, 112-19.
 
第6週
10/18  Toni, Morrison. Playing in the Dark.
bell hooks, “The Politics of Radical Black Subjectivity.” Yearning, 15-22.
bell hooks, “Homeplace.” Yearning, 41-48.
 
第7週
10/25  Mary Louise Pratt, “Introduction: Criticism in the Contact Zone.” Imperial Eyes, 1-11.
Deirdre J. Raynor and Johnnella E. Butler, “Morrison and the Critical Community.” The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison, 175-183.
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8週
11/01  bell hooks, “Saving Black Folk Culture. ” Yearning, 135-143.
bell hooks, “Choosing the Margin as a Space for Radical Openness.” Yearning, 145-53.
Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Harper and Row)
 
第9週
11/08  Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper and Row, 1990) 
第10週
11/15  Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (Plume, 1970) 
第11週
11/22  Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Plume 1977) 
第12週
11/29  Toni Morrison, Beloved (Plume, 1987) 
第13週
12/06  Toni Morrison, Beloved
Toni Morrison, Jazz (Plume, 1992) 
第14週
12/13  Toni Morrison, Jazz 
第15週
12/20  Toni Morrison, Paradise (Plume, 1997) 
第16週
12/27  Toni Morrison, Paradise
Toni Morrison, A Mercy (Plume, 2008) 
第17週
1/03  Toni Morrison, A Mercy