|
Date
|
Author & Text
|
Issues & Supplements
|
|
I.
India and Pakistan |
|
1. 2/22
|
|
My
Fair Lady
 : major
themes; India |
|
2. 3/1
|
|
religion, caste system and
gender;
reference: 1. Indian
English; 2.
images
of women in SA lit. (remote)
: 1. stories;
2. film |
|
3. 3/8
|
|
city ghetto and
diaspora identity
: 1. Salaam
Bombay, 2. Rushdie |
|
4. 3/15
|
|
caste system and
gender
|
|
5. 3/22
|
|
|
| II.
the Caribbean |
|
6. 3/29
|
Group Report
I: Fire
The
Caribbean: cultural, historical backgrounds of Barbados, Trinidad
& Jamaica
“Anancy and Monkey Business.”
Olive Senior's "Bright Thursdays"
|
:1.
Fire,
2. Introd.
to Cari. lit. |
|
7. 4/5
|
Holiday |
|
|
8. 4/12
|
-
Sugar
Cane Alley
-
Clips of "The Harder They Come" and "Dancehall Queen"
-
Wide Sargasso Sea: Intro.
|
:
Sugar
Cane & Cari pop; Jean
Rhys |
9. 4/19
(mid-term week)
|
-
Jean
Rhys (Dominique)
The
Wide Sargasso Sea (Cont'd)
|
stories of growth; slavery, & creole
& female identity |
|
10. 4/26
|
|
stories of growth and female sexualities |
|
11, 5/3
|
|
1.
Rude,
2. Abeng
stories of growth; the middle passage
and African identities
* musical example: Abeng:
see explanation
*Patois
Dictionary. |
|
12 5/10
|
-
Group Report III:
Jamaica
Kincaid Annie
John(Antigua)
-
Group Report IV:
"Children
of the Sea" (Edwidge Danticat's Krik Krak) (Haiti)
|
Annie
John; Haiti
& "Children of the Sea"
group reports: Annie
John; "Children
of the Sea"
Stories of growth and exile |
|
III.
Canada |
|
13. 5/17
|
Group Report
V: The
Adjuster
Canada: Canadian
duality, two solitudes
"Who
Are We?"
poems: Margaret Atwood
|
Canadian duality, two solitudes
What is the Canadian?
The
Adjuster; Canadian
identity
"Tricks with Mirror"(reading) |
|
14. 5/24
|
|
|
|
15. 5/31
|
Margaret Atwood: excerpt from The
Handmaid's Tale
Alice Munro: "The
Found Boat"
|
1.
Handmaid's
Tale; 2. "The
Found Boat" |
|
16. 6/7
|
|
"Rain
Child"; "Blossom" |
17. 6/14
(final exam week)
|
-
Conclusion and Canadian or Chinese Canadian films
|
|
Tentative
Syllabus & Course Notes
NCTU