Course Information
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
 
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. 
 
Course introduction video
 
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.
 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
 
Designated reading
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References
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Grading
   
Progress
Week
Date
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.
 
第3週
3/15  Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality. Vol. I. 135-159.
Teresa de Lauretis, Technologies of Gender. 1-30.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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).
 
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.
 
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