世界英文文学与电影中的成长故事南亚、非洲、加勒比海地.PDFVIP

世界英文文學與電影中的成長故事：南亞、非洲、加勒比海地區與星馬地區 Stories of Growth in World Literatures in English and Film: Indian Subcontinent, Africa, the Caribbean Area and Singapore/Malaysia 劉紀雯 Kate Chiwen Liu E-mail: kate@.tw Thurs 9:10-12:00 Phone: LA 306 LA 302 Office Hour: Tues 3:30-4:30 Wed 10:00 – 12:00 Guest Teacher: Dr. E. K. Tan, Stony Brook U Room: SF 124 Course Objectives This course aims at using the stories of childhood and/or growth written and filmed in the English-speaking countries in Indian Subcontinent, West and South Africa, the Caribbean area and Singapore/Malaysia to develop students’ - abilities in analyzing postcolonial literature and film of different cultural and historical backgrounds; - understanding of how one’s growth—especially in childhood—can be conditioned by one’s gender, national and race identities, and - cross-cultural awareness and cognitive flexibility in building knowledge about other cultures. By the end of this course, students should be able to: 1) identify the themes of the selected stories of growth and explain their thematic development through relations of gender, race and class and their formal elements. 2) locate the texts in their historical and cultural contexts, and through these concrete examples, approach and compare different cultures to build an overall picture (jigsaw puzzle) of the world and constantly adjust it. Class Schedule 週次 日期 主題 Topic Week Date • General Introduction: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Diaspora “The Empire 1 09/21 Writes Back”; • India : c