Kate Liu, Spring 2004

Tentative Schedule

代表碩、博士班同學必讀(required reading for both MA students and PhD. students) ＊代表博士班同學必讀；碩士班同學選讀(optional for MA students)

wk
date		 Subjects &Texts (See Sources) Examples & Reference
wk 1
2/24		 A. General Introduction: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Madonna and 羅大佑
outline
wk 2
3/2		 B. Theories on Postmodernity
1. Charles Jencks--history and definitions
2. ＊Liao's article from Boundary II.		 architecture --Western (A Chinese intro.)  other examples and Taiwanese examples: 1, 2, 3
wk 3
3/9		 3. Jameson--late capitalism and post-industrial society (online text)
4. ＊Baudrillard "Ecstasy of Communication"
 Andy Warhol
wk 4
3/16		 5. Lyotard--deligitimation and the postmodern sublime  (Ref. online text: The Postmodern Condition) 衣仙 outline
6. ＊Habermas -- modernity, an unfinished or failed project? 
7. ＊黃宗慧：大敘事或小敘事？－重探李歐塔之後現代觀  立銓 outline

Newspapers
References: paralogy--1, 2
wk 5
3/23

C. Literary Postmodernism
8. Hutcheon  "Historiographical Metafiction" Sherry outline
9. Hans Berten "The Debate on Postmodern"

Waterland (film version; references: the novel, history)
outline
Postcolonialism
wk 6
3/30		 D. Postcolonial Theories on Colonialism and the Subaltern
10. E. Said Orientalism 貞品
11. Stuart Hall "The West and the Rest: Discourse & Power" 萬隆 		Your own examples
wk 7
4/6		 No Class  
wk 8
4/13		 12. Homi Bhabha, "Signs Taken for Wonder"
14. G. Spivak "Can the Subaltern Speak?" 翠真
Ref. 13. B. Parry "Current Theories of Colonial Discourse"
15. "Subaltern Talk:Interview with the Editors"		 《太平天國》
Bhabha outline
wk 9
4/20		 E. "The Third World"
16. Jameson, Fredric. 'Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Corporations'
17. Ahmed, Aijaz. 'Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness & the "National Allegory"', Social Text 17 (Fall 1987). 美里 outline
18. ＊ Jameson's response 		《悲情城市》
Jameson outline
Intersection I: Literary Strategies & Contamination
wk 10
4/27		 F. Encounter I: Hutchen and Brydon
20. Linda Hutcheon. "Circling the Downspout of Empire: Post-colonialism and Postmodernism."
21. Diane Brydon. "The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy."
19. Ref. Introduction to Past the Last Post
Midnight's Children (午夜之子) --as a historiographical metafiction		 outline
wk 11
5/4		 Midnight's Children -- as a national allegory
Sherry The French Lieutenant's Woman chap 55
 		outline
wk 12
5/11

《高砂百合》, reference: time line, etc. 淑玲
21. Ref. "Postmodernism: From Fantastic to Magic Realist."龍隆 (2 reports)

 
Intersections II: Globalization, Exoticism and Transculturation
wk 13
5/18		 Encounter II: During, et al.
22. Simon During 'Postmodernism or Postcolonialism?'
23. Kwame Anthony Appiah 'Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?'
24. ＊ Moore-Gilbert's Response
萬隆 翠真
  
wk 14
5/25		 Encounter III: 25-29. 後殖民台灣認同
衣仙 貞品 		 
wk 15
6/1		 Encounter IV: Cultural Imperialism & the Postcolonial Exotic
25. 'Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System' Ref
Ref.《文化帝國主義》 立銓 美里

wk 16
6/8

 26. "Writing at the Margins."
Individual Presentations
wk 17
6/15		 Individual Presentations  


Sources:
1. Jencks, Charles.  "The Post-Modern Agenda."  The Post-Modern Reader.  Ed. Charles Jencks.  New York: St Martin's Press, 1992: 10-39.
2. Liao, Ping-hui.  "Literary Discourse and Public Culture in Taiwan." Boundary 2  Vol 24 No. 3 (Fall,
             1997): 41-64.
3. Jameson, Fredric.  "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism."  Ed. Thomas Docherty.  Postmodernism: A Reader.  New York: Harvester, 1993.
4. Jean Baudrillard, "The Ecstacy of Communication."   The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Seattle: Bay P, 1983.
5. Lyotard, Jean-Francois.  "Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?"    The Post-Modern Reader.  (Jenck's Reader): 138-50.
6. Jurgen Habermas, "Modernity -- An Incomplete Project."  The Post-Modern Reader.  151-69. (Jenck's Reader):
7) 黃宗慧. 〈大敘事或小敘事？－重探李歐塔之後現代觀〉 《中外文學》第二十四卷•第二期 [《後現代主義》專輯] (July 1995)
8. Hutcheon, Linda.  "Historiographical Metafiction: 'the pastime of past time.'"  A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: 1988.
9. "The Debate on Postmodernism ." Eds. Bertens, Hans & Douwe Fokkema. International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice. Philadelphia: John Benjamins P.. 1997.
10. Said, E. "From Orientalism." Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory. Longman, 1994
Dennis Porter. "Orientalism and its Problem." Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory. Longman, 1994
11. Hall, Stuart. "The West and the Rest: Discourse & Power." Eds. Hall, Stuart and Bram Gieben.  Formations of Modernity.  The Open University:1992.
12. Bhabha, Homi. "Signs Taken for Wonders." Ed. Ashcroft, Bill, et al.  The Postcolonial Studies Reader.  NY: Routledge, 1995.
13. B. Parry "Current Theories of Colonial Discourse." Ed. Ashcroft, Bill, et al.  The Postcolonial Studies Reader.  NY: Routledge, 1995.
14. Gayatrii Spivak "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Eds. Williams, Patrick & Laura Chrisman. Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory. Longman, 1994
15. "Subaltern Talk:Interview with the Editors." The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Eds. Donna Landry, et al. Routledge, 1995.
16. Jameson, Fredric 'Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.' Ed. Diana Brydon. Postcolonialism: Critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. London & New York: Routledge, 2000), vol 2. (Social Text 15 [1986])
17. Aijaz Ahmad 'Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the National Allegory.' Ed. Diana Brydon. Postcolonialism: Critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. London & New York: Routledge, 2000), vol 2. (Social Text 17 [1987]).
18. Jameson, Fredric. "A Brief Response." Ed. Diana Brydon. Postcolonialism: Critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. London & New York: Routledge, 2000), vol 2. (Social Text 17 [1987] )
19. Hutcheon. "Circling the Downspout of Empire: Post-colonialism and Postmodernism." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Postcolonialism and Postmodernism. Eds. Ian Adam, Helen Tiffin. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. (Ariel 20[1989]).
20. Brydon, Diane. "The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Postcolonialism and Postmodernism. Eds. Ian Adam, Helen Tiffin. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
21. D'Haen, Theo. "Postmodernism: From Fantastic to Magic Realist." Eds. Bertens, Hans & Douwe Fokkema. International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice. Philadelphia: John Benjamins P.. 1997.
22. During, Simon. 'Postmodernism or Postcolonialism?' Ed. Thomas Docherty.  Postmodernism: A Reader.  New York: Harvester, 1993.
23. Kwame Anthony Appiah 'Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?' Ed. Diana Brydon. Postcolonialism : critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. Vol. 1. London : Routledge, 2000. - 5 vol. (Critical Inquiry 17 [1991])
24. Moore-Gilbert, Bart, "Postcolonialism: between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During", Postcolonial Studies 1:1 (1998): 49-65.
25. 邱貴芬·〈「發現台灣」：建構台灣後殖民論述 〉· 《中外文學 》第二十一卷•第二期(July 1992) .
26. 廖朝陽·是四不像，還是虎豹獅象？-- 再與邱貴芬談臺灣文化 〉·《中外文學》第二十一卷•第三期 (August 1992)
27. 邱貴芬·〈咱攏是臺灣人」-- 答廖朝陽有關臺灣後殖民論述的問題 〉·《中外文學》第二十一卷•第三期 (August 1992)
28. 陳昭瑛：論台灣的本土化運動：一個文化史的考察 《中外文學 》第二十三卷•第九期 (February 1995).
29. 邱貴芬·. 〈後殖民的台灣演繹〉. 《文化研究在台灣》. 巨流圖書公司，2000年出版. 主編：陳光興.
30. Immanuel Wallerstein 'Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System' Global Culture:Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity, Ed. Mike Featherstone London:Sage Publications [1990]
31. Huggan, Graham. "Writing at the Margins." The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. Routledge, 2001.