Course title |
二十世紀女性小說 Twentieth-century Women S Fiction |
Semester |
106-2 |
Designated for |
VARIOUS PROGRAM WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES CERTIFICATE PROGRAM |
Instructor |
劉亮雅 |
Curriculum Number |
FL7066 |
Curriculum Identity Number |
122 M2640 |
Class |
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Credits |
3.0 |
Full/Half Yr. |
Half |
Required/ Elective |
Elective |
Time |
Thursday 6,7,8(13:20~16:20) |
Room |
外研三 |
Remarks |
Restriction: MA students and beyond The upper limit of the number of students: 12. |
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Course introduction video |
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Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning |
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning |
Course Syllabus
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Course Description |
This course will focus on Twentieth-Century women’s fiction written in English, with the premise that women’s fiction is related to the historical experiences of women and that the experiences may vary in accordance with race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and location. We will read feminist theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory in the first seven weeks and study one literary fiction for each of the next nine weeks. The themes we will explore include mother-daughter relationship, female friendship, gender relationship, trauma, diaspora, the interlocking of gender and race, etc. We will relate the vision of each fiction to the concerns of its time and study how the aesthetics of each fiction enhance the power of its vision. |
Course Objective |
This course will focus on Twentieth-Century women’s fiction written in English, with the premise that women’s fiction is related to the historical experiences of women and that the experiences may vary in accordance with race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and location. We will read feminist theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory in the first seven weeks and study one literary fiction for each of the next nine weeks. The themes we will explore include mother-daughter relationship, female friendship, gender relationship, trauma, diaspora, the interlocking of gender and race, etc. We will relate the vision of each fiction to the concerns of its time and study how the aesthetics of each fiction enhance the power of its vision. |
Course Requirement |
1. participation in class discussion.
2. several oral presentations.
3. several critical reviews.
4. a term project of 15-20 pages long.
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Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week) |
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Office Hours |
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Designated reading |
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References |
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Grading |
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Week |
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Topic |
第1週 |
3/01 |
Introduction |
第2週 |
3/08 |
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden.” 231-43.
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第3週 |
3/15 |
Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality. Vol. I. 135-159.
Teresa de Lauretis, Technologies of Gender. 1-30.
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第4週 |
3/22 |
Elisabeth Grosz, “Luce Irigaray and Sexual Difference.” Sexual Subversions, 100-39, (240-43).
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses.” Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. 51-80.
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第5週 |
3/29 |
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffins, and Helen Tiffin, “Introduction.” The Empire Writes Back. 1-13.
Benedict Anderson, “Creole Pioneers.” Imagined Communities, 47-65
Arif Dirlik. “Place-Based Imagination: Globalism and the Politics of Place.” Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization. 15-51.
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第6週 |
4/05 |
holiday |
第7週 |
4/12 |
Gloria Anzaldua. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” A Cultural Studies Reader. 402-11.
Sara Ahmed, “Going Strange, Going Native.” Strange Encounters, 114-33.
Cathy Caruth. “Traumatic Awakening (Freud, Lacan, and the Ethics of Memory).” Unclaimed Experience. 91-117. (136-46).
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第8週 |
4/19 |
Eve Sedgwick, “Introduction.” Between Men. 1-20.
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations. 217-51.
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第9週 |
4/26 |
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse |
第10週 |
5/03 |
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence |
第11週 |
5/10 |
Nella Larsen’s Passing |
第12週 |
5/17 |
Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing |
第13週 |
5/24 |
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea |
第14週 |
5/31 |
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale |
第15週 |
6/07 |
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things |
第16週 |
6/14 |
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things |
第17週 |
6/21 |
Toni Morrison’s A Mercy |
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