課程資訊
課程名稱
 眾多身體：文學與障礙研究概論
Every Body: An Introduction to Literary Disability Studies 
開課學期
 111-1 
授課對象
 文學院  外國語文學研究所  
授課教師
 曼紐爾 
課號
 FL7341 
課程識別碼
 122EM4100 
班次
  
學分
 3.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期二2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
上課地點
 外研三 
備註
 本課程以英語授課。第一、三類。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：12人 
  
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課程概述

Course Description:
By examining bodies and minds that deviate from our assumed notions of the normal, this course explores how disability functions as an identity label. Disability attests to the irreducible phenomenon of human diversity. Think of the many types of bodies that people inhabit and that become racially, sexually, and clinically defined. Think also of the wide spectrum of disabilities: physical, intellectual, sensorial. Rather than aiming for stable definitions of “body,” “ability” and “disability,” our class will address ongoing topics of debate in the fields of disability studies and the medical humanities: racist pseudoscience, disability as spectacle, prosthetics and the rise of the cyborg, dependency theory, the disability con, disability and sentimentality, reproductive rights, disability as super-ability, and crip sexuality. Also, because our topic is represented across various art forms, we will analyze multiple media (fiction, memoir, drama, film, video art, and painting) in order to grapple with the ethical and political implications of (mis)representing disability. Although our primary texts belong mostly to the Anglo-American tradition, you are encouraged to connect our discussions with your area of expertise as well as with Taiwanese literatures and cultures. 

課程目標
 Course Objectives:
To approach literary and cultural texts from the perspective of embodiment and disability.
To learn about cultural, political, and historical factors shaping artistic representations of people with disabilities.
To use literature to frame our understanding of present-day debates in bioethics: genetic engineering, cosmetic surgery, reproductive rights, euthanasia, etc.
To gain familiarity with central questions and problems in disability studies and the medical humanities.
To understand the evolving status of human bodies in Western philosophy and critical theory.
To explore how physical and intellectual disabilities shape alternative literary forms and genres.
To hone interdisciplinary research skills. 
課程要求
 Requirements:
Class attendance and participation
Weekly reading assignments, to be completed before class meetings.
Formal and informal writing assignments
Additional assignments (accessibility report, critical responses, leading discussion) 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 每週四 13:00~15:00 備註： Preferably by appointment 
指定閱讀
  
參考書目
 Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin, eds. Keywords for Disability Studies. New York UP, 2015.
Berube, Michael. The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read. New York UP, 2016.
Davidson, Michael. Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic. Oxford UP, 2019.
Davis Jr., Lennard, ed. Disability Studies Reader. Routledge, 2013.
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia UP, 1997.
---., ed. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. New York UP, 1996.
Holmes, Martha Stoddard. Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability and Victorian Culture. U of Michigan P, 2004.
Kafer, Alison. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana UP, 2013.
McRuer, Robert. Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. New York UP, 2018.
Mitchell, David, and Sharon Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. Ann Arbor UP, 2001.
Mitchell, David, Sharon Snyder, and Susan Antebi, eds. The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect. U of Michigan P, 2019.
Sandahl, Carrie, and Philip Auslander, eds. Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance. U of Michigan P, 2005.
Siebers, Tobin. Disability Aesthetics. U of Michigan P, 2009.? 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
    
針對學生困難提供學生調整方式
  
上課形式
 提供學生彈性出席課程方式, 以錄音輔助, 以錄影輔助
作業繳交方式
 延長作業繳交期限, 學生與授課老師協議改以其他形式呈現
考試形式
其他
 由師生雙方議定
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 1
 9/6  INTRODUCTION
• Simi Linton, “What is Disability Studies?” [NTU Cool]
• Stella Young, “I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much!” [TED talk @NTU Cool]
• Michael Bérubé, “Humans, Superheroes, Mutants, and People with Disabilities” [Youtube clip @NTU Cool] 
Week 2
 9/13  FROM THE MEDICAL MODEL TO SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
o Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple” (CP)
o Tom Shakespeare, “The Social Model of Disability” (CP)
o Definitions of “disability” in the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990, USA) and People with Disabilities Rights Protections Act (2015, Taiwan)
o Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back (dir. David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, 1995) [In-class screening] 
Week 3
 9/20  THE BODY IN THEORY (I): ANTIQUITY AND EARLY MODERNITY
o Plato, selections from Cratylus and Phaedus (CP)
o Henri Jacques Stiker, chapter 3, History of Disability (CP)
o Francis Bacon, “Of Deformity” (CP)
o Sophocles, selections from Oedipus Rex (CP)
o William Shakespeare, selected scenes from Richard III and The Tempest [reading/screening in class]
Critical Response #0 due (on popular culture sample of your choice) 
Week 4
 9/27  THE BODY IN THEORY (II): FOUCAULT AND AFTER
o Michel Foucault, “Docile Bodies,” from Discipline and Punish (CP)
o Judith Butler, “Introduction,” from Bodies that Matter (CP)
o Lennard Davis, “Constructing Normalcy,” from Enforcing Normalcy (CP) 
Week 5
 10/4  EUGENICS
o Harriet McBryde Johnson, “Unspeakable Conversations”
o Peter Singer, selections from Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics 
Week 6
 10/11  BIOETHICS
o GATTACA (dir. Andrew Niccol, 1997) [In-class screening and discussion]
Critical Response #1 due 
Week 7
 10/18  PROSTHESIS
o David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, “Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor,” from Narrative Prosthesis (CP)
o Flannery O’Connor, “The Lame Shall Enter First”(CP) 
Week 8
 10/25  TECHNOLOGY AND THE POSTHUMAN
o Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man That Was Used Up" (CP)
o Vivian Sobchack, “A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality” (CP) 
Week 9
 11/1  DISABILITY AND REPRESENTATION
o Hubert Haddad, Desirable Body
o Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Disability, Identity, and Representation,” from Extraordinary Bodies (CP) 
Week 10
 11/8  DISABILITY AND PLACE
o Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Misfits” (CP)
o Tanya Titchkosky, “Introduction: Access as an Act of Perception,” from The Question of Access (CP)
o Optional: Browse Aimi Hamraie’s Critical Design Lab and Mapping Access projects 
Week 11
 11/15  SPECTACLES OF DISABILITY: FREAKERY
o Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity,” from Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Disabled Body (CP)
o Freaks (dir. Tod Browning, 1932) [in-class screening and discussion]
Critical Response #2 due 
Week 12
 11/22  SPECTACLES OF DISABILITY: SENTIMENTALITY
o Catharine M. Sedgwick, “The Deformed Boy” (CP)
o Martha Stoddard Holmes, selections from Fictions of Affliction (CP)
Final essay proposal due 
Week 13
 11/29  DISABILITY AND NARRATIVE THEORY (I)
o Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (until chapter 157)
o Optional reading: Ato Quayson, "Aesthetic Nervousness" (CP) 
Week 14
 12/6  DISABILITY AND NARRATIVE THEORY (II)
o Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (chapter 158-end)
o Optional reading: Michael Bérubé, “Introduction,” from The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read (CP) 
Week 15
 12/13  SYMPOSIUM AND COURSE RECAP 
Week 16
 12/20  SYMPOSIUM AND COURSE RECAP
Final essay due on 12/23