| 國立中興大學教學大綱 |
| 課程名稱 | (中) 亞美文學(6028) | ||||||||
| (Eng.) Asian American Literature | |||||||||
| 開課單位 | 外文系 | ||||||||
| 課程類別 | 選修 | 學分 | 3 | 授課教師 | 陳淑卿 | ||||
| 選課單位 | 外文系 / 碩士班 | 授課使用語言 | 英文 | 開課學期 | 1081 | ||||
| 課程簡述 | This course examines Asian American literature as a specific expression of diaspora, revolving around topics and issues derived from the historical challenges of migration, displacement, relocation, and traveling in both national and transnational contexts. In national context, earlier literary expressions of Asian America focus mainly on the search for identity, the difficulty of “claiming America,” theh dilemma between assimilation and ethnicity, the plight of Orientalist stereotype and racial castration, generation conflict and mother-daughter relationship, and the trauma and memory of internmentship, deprivation of citizenship. Recent Asian American literary expressions trace different migratory routes of multiple dislocations along with transnational cultural flows. The idea of ethnic community is dislodged from its tie with place and singular “home” to assert something fluid, uncertain, interrelated, and thus subversive to the binary of the adopted country and motherland. Mobility and movements are considered the basis upon which Transpacific Asian American Studies build their conceptual frames. The latter half of the course will concentrate on this recent paradigm shift which reads Asian American literature in the context of Transpacific history, focusing less on a fixed locality or nationality, rather on the encounter, dialogue, contradiction, and translocal alliance between subjects from both sides of the Pacific, while evoking complex histories of multiple colonialization and imperialism specific to the region. | ||||||||
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| 課程與核心能力關聯配比(%) | 課程目標之教學方法與評量方法 | |||||||||
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| Our reading of the texts will focus on strategies of resistance and politics of identity in the face of hegemonic representation of the Asian Americans; and the transformation and reinvention of literary forms that correspond to these concerns. For the transpacific texts, attention will be paid to explore methods of reimagining the Pacific in ways that exceed and challenge earlier Pacific imagination forged by a regional ideology supported by American Imperialism, while revealing layers of historical violence in the region. We ask: How can Asian American subjects and communities contribute to the reconfiguration of the transpacific imagination? How can Asian American literature respond to racism and white nationalist hegemony without duplicating its power structure when facing Asia and the Pacific? How can the transpacific studies bridge the gap between the knowledge productions of Asia, America, and Asian America and their given geopolitical hierarchy? Other than the 5 novels we will read, we will go over some monumental articles that offer groundbreaking critical perspectives as they reexamine the critical history of Asian American literary studies. We will also read articles that provide the needed concepts of diaspora and globalization, home and the world, the concept of worlding and transpacific discourse etc. to help you approach the literary texts with clear critical visions. |
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| 授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共18週) | ||||||||||
| Course Schedule: 9/12 No class—teacher on leave of absence 9/19 Introduction 9/26 Lisa Lowe, “Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique,” in Immigrant Acts. 1996 ✽ Chung-yen Chen lecture 10/3 Edward Said, Introduction to Orientalism. The Woman Warrior 10/10 National Holiday--No class meeting 10/17 Gender, Race and Food The Woman Warrior Sau-ling Wong, “Big Eaters, Treat Lovers, “Food Prostitutes,” “Food Pornographers,” and Doughnut Makers” 10/24 Race, Nation, Citizenship David Palumbo-Liu, “War, the Homeland, and the Traces of Memory” John Okada, No-No Boy. 10/31 John Okada, No-No Boy Ling, Jinqi. "Race, Power, and Cultural Politics in John Okada's No-No Boy." American Literature 67.2 (1995): 359–81. 11/07 Diaspora, Hybridity, multiplicity and mobility Lisa Lowe, “Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Difference.” 1996. Victor Bascara, “Unburdening Empire: The Cultural Politics of Asian American Difference” in Model-Minority Imperialism. 2006. Mid-term paper due 11/14 Globalization and Interethnic Relations Han Ong, Fixer Chao. New York: Picador, 2002. 11/21 Han Ong, Fixer Chao. New York: Picador, 2002. 11/28 Transpacific Imagination and Asian American Literature Naoki Sakai & Hyon Joo Yoo, eds. “Introduction,” The Trans-Pacific Imagination: rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society. Janet Hoskins & Viet Thanh Nguyen eds. “Introduction,” Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. 12/05 Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being. New York: Viking, 2013. 12/12 Hsuan Hsu talk 12/19 Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being. New York: Viking, 2013. 12/26 Memory, Trauma, and Model Minority Narrative Cathy Caruth, “Introduction,” Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Kandice Chuh, “Discomforting Knowledge: Or Korean ‘Comfort Women’ and Asian Americanist Critical Practice.” 1/02 Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life. 1/09 Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life Kandice Chuh, “’One Hundred Percent Korean’: On Space and Subjectivity.” 1/16 Paper Due |
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| Finish assigned reading and active participation of class discussions (10%), 2 oral reports (20%), one midterm paper (5-7 pages, 30%), one final term paper (10-12 pages, 40%). |
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| Suggested reading list for Asian American literary Criticism: Chan, Sucheng, Asian America: An Interpretive History. Cheng, Anne Anlin. The Melancholy of Race. Cheung, King-Kok, ed. An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature. Cheung, King-Kok. Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa. Chuh, Kandice. Imagine Otherwise on Asian Americanist Critique. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2003. Chuh, Kandice and Karen Shimakawa. Orientations: Mapping Studies in Asian Diaspora. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2003. Dirlik, Arif. What is in a Rim? Critical Perspective on the Pacific Regional Idea. Eng, David. Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2001. Kim, Elaine H. Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context. Kim, Daniel Y. 2005. “Once More, With Feeling: Cold War Masculinity and the Sentiment of Patriotism in John Okada’s No-No Boy.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 47 (1): 65–83. Hoskins, Janet & Viet Thanh Nguyen. Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. 2014. Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. Across the Pacific: Asian American and Globalization. Lee, Robert G. 1999. Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Ling, Jinqi. 1995. Ling, Jinqi. Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. Lowe, Lisa. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Nguyen, Viet Thanh. Race and Resistance. Palumbo-Liu, David. The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, Interventions. ---. Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier. Piette, Adam. The Literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2009. Said, Edward. Orientalism. Sakai, Naoki & Hyon Joo Yoo. Trans-Pacific Imagination: Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society. 2012. Shirley Geok-lin Lim et al, Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. 2006. Singh, Amritjit et al, Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Ethnic Literature. Wang, Chih-ming. Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America. 2013. Wilson, Rob. “Toward an Ecopoetics of Oceania: Worlding the Asia-Pacific Region as Space-Time Ecumene.” American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning Toward the Transpacific, eds. Yuan Shu & Donald E. Pease. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College P, 2015, 213-236. Print. Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia. Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance. 1993. Extensive Reading: Robinson, Greg. 2009. A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. New York: Columbia University Press. Sakai, Naoki. 2005. “Two Negations: The Fear of Being Excluded and the Logic of Self-Esteem.” In Contemporary Japanese Thought, edited by Richard F. Calichman, 159–92. New York: Columbia University Press. Sokolowski, Jeanne. 2009. “Internment and Post-War Japanese American Literature: Toward a Theory of Divine Citizenship.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 34 (1): 69–93. Wu, Ellen D. 2014. The Color of Success: ASIAN Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. |
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| All the xerox copies of the reading materials will be posted on iLearning | ||||||||||
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| Tuesday 2:00-4:00 PM | ||||||||||
| 聯合國全球永續發展目標(連結網址) | ||||||||||
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| 請尊重智慧財產權及性別平等意識，不得非法影印他人著作。 | |
| 更新日期 西元年/月/日：無 | 列印日期 西元年/月/日：2026 / 6 / 22 |
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