2013 Spring EL 3069

世界英文文學

DING Naifei

Thursday 1400-1700, A204

dingnf@cc.ncu.edu.tw


“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

(Franz Fanon, 1967, Black Skin, White Masks)



Class schedule:

Decolonization 0
02.21

Jane Eyre film, directed by Robert Stevenson (1944)

02.28

HOLIDAY

03.07

Charlotte Brönte (1847), Jane Eyre, Chapters I-XXI; Firdous Azim (1993), “The Subject/s of the Novel,” The Colonial Rise of the Novel, London Routledge, 1993, 10-33

03.14

Jane Eyre (cont’d), Chapters XXII-XXXVIII; “Esther Godfrey, “Jane Eyre: From Governess to Girl-Bride” (2005)

03.21

Jean Rhys (1966), Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

03.28

Wide Sargasso Sea (cont’d); Jennifer P. Nesbitt, “Rum Histories: Decolonizing the Narratives of Jean Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea” and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “The Flint Anchor” (2007)

Recommended
  • 1. Gayatri C. Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” (1985)
  • 2. Lee Erwin, “’Like in a Looking Glass’: History and Narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea (1989)
Decolonization 1
04.04

HOLIDAY

04.11

George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin (1983, 1991) Chapters 1-6; Kenneth Ramchand, “Decolonisation in West Indian Literature” (1965)

04.18

In the Castle of My Skin (cont’d) Chapters 7-14.

04.25

Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1991).

05.02

Lucy (cont’d).

05.09

Jennifer J. Nichols, “’Poor Visitor’: Mobility as/of Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy”

Recommended
  • 1. G.R. Coulthard, “The West Indian Novel of Immigration” (1959)
  • 2. Lloyd Brown, “West Indian Literature: Road to a ‘New World’ Sensibility” (1977)
  • 3. J. Dillon Brown, “Exile and Cunning: The Tactical Difficulties of George Lamming” (2006)
  • 4. Raphael Dalleo, “Authority and the Occasion for Speaking in the Caribbean Literary Field: Martin Carter and George Lamming” (2006)
  • 5. Ngũgĩ waa Thiong’o, “Freeing the Imagination” (2008)
  • 6. Betty Joseph, “Gendering Time in Globalization: The Belatedness of the Other Woman and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy” (2002)
  • 7. Bruce Robbins, “Soul Making: Gayatri Spivak on Upward Mobility” (unpublished paper)
05.16

MIDTERM EXAM

Decolonization 2
05.23

《橘子紅了》,琦君(1991)

05.30

《T婆工廠》(2010),《彩虹芭樂》(2012),TIWA(邀請中)

06.06

《桃姐與我》,李恩霖(2012),香港青森文化;《桃姐》(A Simple Life),許鞍華(2011)

Recommended
  • 1. 《我們:移動與勞動的生命記事》,顧玉玲(2008),台北印刻
  • 2. 《到外婆家FUN寒假:萬里尋母-我從來沒有忘記妳》,〈我的外婆家在千里達及拖巴哥〉,公共電視,
  •   http://www.pts.org.tw/Program/Template1B_Customize_Menu.aspx?PNum=377&CMNum=1030
  • 3. 吳永毅,〈無HOME可歸〉,《全球化下的移民與移工》,夏曉娟,陳信行與黃德北編,台社叢書(2008)
  • 4. 《銀姐》,黃貞才著,吳玫英譯,台北智庫(1999); Silver Sister, Lillian Ng, Mandarin publishers (1994)
06.13

Wrap-up discussion

06.20

FINAL EXAM



Evaluation:

Pop quizzes on weekly reading assignments (20%)

Group (6-8 per group) oral presentation (20%)

Mid-term exam (30%)

Final exam (30%)