ConclusionMappingVisualMappingCognitiveMapping.pptVIP

World Literatures in English Conclusion Mapping: Visual Mapping Cognitive Mapping What is Mapping and what is it for? Visual mapping– the authors and characters are not out of nowhere. Cognitive mapping – a way to manage your own knowledge and to locate oneself I: Contextualization Artistic Concretization II. Major Themes III. Self-Location Mapping The Caribbean Islands their migrants Canada Cognitive mapping I the cultural specifics: e.g. India: Caste system, purdah, e.g. the Caribbean: obiah, krik?krak! e.g. Canada: sense of duality; victim mentality. the artistic embodiment: e.g. spatial metaphors, e.g. natural beings as metaphors e.g. Biblical allusions e.g. English sayings and words. Cognitive mapping II A. Colonization Government and colonization: control by categorization and “help” with lack of understanding. More brutal control in “Children of the Sea” and Handmaid “Whiteness” and Domination– with various kinds of power Mental colonization Gender and colonization -- women’s role Cognitive mapping II B. Children and Gender Children’s growth and education Marriage, sex and child birth Mother-daughter relationship C. Diaspora, Gender and Writing Writing –e.g. “revising the written record” (Cliff); “bearing witness ”(Danticat) Treatment of colonial/personal/cultural past. Continuation (I) Taiwanese counterparts; A. (de-)colonization: Does Taiwan succeed in constructing its own identity after the multiple colonization by Holland, Spain, Japan, the U.S. and under the neo-colonial powers of the U.S. and Japan? ? (e.g. the stories by 黃春明；the films 《無言的山丘》、《無卵頭家》、 A Borrowed Life, City of Sadness, 《超級大國民》、《太平天國》(Bhadha Bless America)、《匪諜大亨》，and so many other texts.) Continuation (I) Taiwanese counterparts; B. cultural/national identity: What kinds of cultural identities do Taiwanese have?? How are they different from the Chinese diaspora in the other parts in the world?? (e.g. 《春光乍洩》、《三個女人的故事》《甜蜜蜜》《愛在他鄉的季節》《春光