2010 Spring EL3069 世界英文文學 Worlding Fiction
DING Naifei (Office: A-204) Monday, 2-5pm C2-114Place: C2-437
Office: A204 x33230
dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.twTexts:
Copies of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy will be available at Bookman Books, Taipei: 書林，台北新生南路三段88號2樓之5，02-2368-7226 (ask at the front desk for these books under my name). We will also be reading George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin, Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues, and Rebecca Brown’s The Terrible Girls. We will discuss how to purchase these texts in class. A course reader will be available at Gaoguan by February 22. For those who wish to take the class, please read at least Jane Eyre during winter break. There will be a quiz on Jane Eyre the first day of class (2/22). If you wish to retain enrollment or add the class make sure to attend the first class.Evaluation:
6-8 pop quizzes on weekly reading assignments (30%)
group oral presentation (20%)
mid-term exam (20%)
final exam (30%)Class Schedule
2.22 - Intro + Quiz (Jane Eyre)
“I mean that the past exists – side by side with the present, not behind it; that what was – is.” (Jean Rhys: Letters, 1931-1966, New York: Penguin, 1985, p. 24)
I - 3.01, 3.8, 3.15, 3.22, 3.29
1. Charlotte Brönte, Jane Eyre (1847) (Norton or Oxford edition; also available on http://books.google.com) A. Frederick Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, Chapter 2 “The Family,” Section Four “The Monogamous Family” (1884) (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02d.htm)
B. Adrienne Rich, “Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a Motherless Woman” (1973) in On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose (1979), pp. 89-106
C. Lennard J. Davis, “Resisting the novel” in Resisting the Novel: Ideology & Fiction, Methuen 1987, pp. 1-23
D. Chris R. Vanden Bossche, “What Did Jane Eyre Do? Ideology, Agency, Class and the Novel”, Narrative, Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 46-662. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) A. Gayatri Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” in Critical Inquiry, Volume 12, No. 1, Autumn 1985, pp. 243-261
B. Lee Erwin, “’Like in a Looking-Glass’: History and Narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea” in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter 1989), pp. 143-158
And what did I remember? My father who had only fathered the idea of me had left me the sole liability of my mother who really fathered me. (George Lamming, In The Castle of My Skin, 11)
II - 4.05(holiday), 4.12, 4.19, 4.26, 5.03, 5.08, 5.10,
5.08 - mid-term
3. George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin, (1983, 1991) A. Joyce E. Jonas, “Carnival Strategies in Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin” in Callalloo, No. 35 (Spring 1988), pp. 346-360
B. Raymond Smith, “Hierarchy and the Dual Marriage System in West Indian Society” in The Matrifocal Family: Power, Pluralism, and Politics (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 59-80 (in reader)
C. Ngũgĩ waa Thiong’o, “Freeing the Imagination” in Transition, No. 100 (2008), pp. 164-169
4. Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1991) A. Betty Joseph, “Gendering Time in Globalization: The Belatedness of the Other Woman and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy” in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 67-83
B. Carolyn Steedman, “Landscape for a Good Woman” and “History and Autobiography: different pasts” in Past Tenses: Essays on writing, autobiography and history (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1992), pp. 21-50
“I don’t know what it would take to really change the world. But couldn’t we get together and try to figure it out? Couldn’t the we be bigger? Isn’t there a way we could help fight each other’s battles so that we’re not always alone?” (Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, 296)
III - 5.17, 5.24, 5.31, 6.07, 6.14
6.21 - final exam
5. Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (1993) A. Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” in Abelove, Barale, Halperin, et al, (Eds), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1992)
B. Susan Fraiman, “Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye” in New Literary History 37.2 (2006) 341-359C. 吳永毅，＜無HOME可歸：公私反轉與外籍家勞所受之時空排斥的個案研究＞，《跨界流離：全球化下的移民與移工》，台社叢刊－13，夏曉鵑，陳信行與黃德北編，2008年12月，299-359頁
6. Selections from Rebecca Brown, The Terrible Girls (1992) A. Lennard J. Davis, “Thick plots: history and fiction” in Resisting the Novel: Ideology & Fiction, Methuen 1987, pp.191-223 “I must make the final gesture of defiance, and refuse to let this be absorbed by the final story; must ask for a structure of political thought that will take all of this, all these secret and impossible stories, recognize what has been made out on the margins; and then, recognizing it, refuse to celebrate it; a politics that will, watching this past say “So what?”; and consign it to the dark. (Carolyn Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman)
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