Spring 2011 EL EL3069
World Fictions 世界英文文學
DING Naifei
Tuesday 14:00-17:00, A108
Office: A204
dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw; subject : EL3069
Readings:
Copies of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea are available at the campus bookstore. We will also read George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, and chapters from Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickled and Dimed alongside Ku Yu-ling's Our Stories.
Class schedule:
| 2.22 |
1. Charlotte Brönte, Jane Eyre (1847) (also available on http://books.google.com)
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| A. |
Susan Fraiman, "Is There a Female Bildungsroman?" in Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development. Columbia U. Press, 1993. 1-31 |
| B. |
Marianne Ward, "The Gospel According to Jane Eyre: The Suttee and the Seraglio," The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol 35 No. 1 (Spring 2002). 14-24 |
| C. |
Chris R. Vanden Bossche, "What Did Jane Eyre Do? Ideology, Agency, Class and the Novel", Narrative, Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 2005). 46-66 |
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2. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
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| A. |
Gayatri Spivak, "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" in Critical Inquiry, Volume 12, No. 1, Autumn 1985. 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). 143-158 |
| B. |
Laura E. Donaldson, "The Miranda Complex: Colonialism and the Problem of Feminist Reading," Diacritics, Vol. 18 No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), 65-77 |
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3. world literature as question
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| A. |
Fredric Jameson, "World Literature in an Age of Multinational Capitalism" in Koelbe and Lokke, eds. The Current in Criticism. Purdue U. Press, 1987. 139-158 |
| B. |
Madhava Prasad, "On the Question of a Theory of (Third World) Literature" in Social Text, No. 31/32 (1992). 57-83 |
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| "What we call the "libidinal/individualist" text is one whose historical meaning is the responsibility of the institution of literary studies. Which is not to say that that text is free of allegorical signification, but that the very idea of a text being free of "allegory" and therefore "individualistic" is an idea that only arises with the division of the aesthetic from the theoretical/critical functions. An important consequence is the isolation of the aesthetic function from the political." (M. Prasad) |
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| 3.1 |
| 3.8 |
| 3.15 |
| 3.22 |
| 3.29 |
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| 4.5 |
HOLIDAY |
| 4.12 |
4. George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin, (1983, 1991)
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| A. |
Ngũgĩ waa Thiong'o, "Freeing the Imagination" in Transition, No. 100 (2008). 164-169 |
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J. Dillon Brown, "Exile and Cunning: The Tactical Difficulties of George Lamming" in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 47, No. 4, (Winter 2006), 669-694 |
| C. |
Robert Goddard, "Agricultural Worker as Archetype in West Indian and African American Literature" in Agricultural History, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Spring 1998). 509-520 |
| D. |
Joyce E. Jonas, "Carnival Strategies in Lamming's In The Castle of My Skin" in Callalloo, No. 35 (Spring 1988). 346-360 |
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5. Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (1993)
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| A. |
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. |
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 |
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Susan Fraiman, "Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye" in New Literary History 37.2 (2006). 341-359 |
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| "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?" (L. Feinberg) |
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| 4.19 |
| 4.26 |
| 5.3 |
| 5.8 |
| 5.10 |
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| 5.17 |
Mid-term |
| 5.24 |
6. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, "Getting Ready," "Serving in Florida," "Evaluation," and "Afterword: Nickled and Dimed," New York: Holt, 2001, 2008
7. 《我們：移動與勞動的生命記事》，顧玉玲，台北，印刻2008 |
| 5.31 |
| 6.7 |
| 6.14 |
| 6.21 |
Final Exam |
Evaluation:
6-8 pop quizzes on weekly reading assignments (30%)
group oral presentation (20%)
mid-term exam (20%)
final exam (30%)
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