當代印度次大陸、非洲、加勒比海地區文學中的
種族與性別議題
Connecting to the Big Wide World
through News, Documentaries and Other Cultural Texts
Purpose: Some of the students who took this course later told me how the readings resonated with what they saw on TV, or what they experienced not only in Taiwan and the areas we cover, but also in U.K., U.S, mainland China, Vietnam, and etc., etc.. This gives me an idea: the "English" world is too big to be brought into our classroom indeed, but why don't we make connections to it with what's available in our world--that is, the news, films, documentaries and other cultural texts we frequently read and see? Method: 1.
I have compiled a list of documentaries. In the bookstore, there are also
a lot of memoirs available. You can choose one, or two at most, which
you find relevant to what's covered in our class. |
List of Documentaries
on Race, Gender (the Muslim women), and the three areas (Indian Subcontinent,
South Africa and the Caribbean).
our no. | Kind | Nation | City | Program/Title | No. |
General
0 | Society: Race | Race; (definition, racism and jokes) | 96 | ||
0-1 | Society: Race | Afghanistan | 真相大白:千尋百找阿富汗少女 |
140
|
|
2 | Society: Gender | Muslim World | 回教女性的面紗(上) | 90 | |
3 | Society: Gender | Muslim World | 回教女性的面紗(下) | 91 |
India
1 | Culture intro. | India | India: The Land of Spirit and the Mystique | ||
4 | Urban Culture | India | Bombay | Chasing Time | 37 |
5 | Urban Culture | India | Bombay | 一個城市六個朋友 | 102 |
6 |
Entertainment |
India |
Bombay |
Bollywood 印度電影工業 |
45 |
7 | Urban Culture | India | Global Trekker (勇闖天涯) | 147 | |
8 |
Religion |
India |
Agra |
Taj Mahal, Agra city |
47 |
9 |
Religion |
India |
Goa |
48 |
|
10 |
Society: Gender |
India |
五個婚禮和兩場葬禮─印度教婚禮、馬來婚禮 |
98 |
South Africa
11 | Society: Race | South Africa | Long Night's Journey into the Day (website) | ||
12 | Urban Culture | South Africa | Cape Town | City Cabs | 81 |
13 | Culture: Music | Grace Land (Paul Simon) | |||
21 | Society: Love | South Africa |
21 Up South Africa: Mandela's Children (website) |
East Africa
22 | History: Colonialism | East Africa | Kenya |
Mau Mau (part 2) Black Man's Land Trilogy |
|
23 | Civil War and Survival | East Africa | Uganda |
War Dance (website) |
|
24 | Civil War and Survival | East Africa | Uganda |
The Other Side of the Country (website) |
|
25 | Civil War: Child Soldier | East Africa | Uganda |
Invisible Children (DVD 355.0083 I62) (website) |
The Caribbean Area
14 |
National/Regional | Jamaica | 44 | ||
15 | National/Regional | Hidden Caribbean --ecotourism | 146 | ||
16 | National/Regional | South Africa | Johannesburg | 五個婚禮和兩場葬禮 ─約翰尼斯堡婚禮 | 148 |
17 | National/Regional | Lonely Planet(勇闖天涯): Caribbean | 151 | ||
18 | Culture: Music | BOY MARLEY STORY, THE | |||
19 |
Culture: Music | Fugees | |||
20 |
Culture: Music | Rhyme and Reason |