Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
The class begins with a survey of Postcolonial theories, to be followed by the analysis of eleven Postcolonial plays. Theorists studied in class range from Fanon, Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Gilroy, to Ashcroft. The dramatic literature included for this postcolonial approach, on the basis of the Commonwealth Literature, offers a diversified spectrum from Indo-Anglian, African American, Caribbean, African, Canadian, to Asian dramas.
能力項目說明
The class is designed to give students a thorough understanding and keen exegesis of the relationship between postcolonial theories and English drama. It is hoped that students will then be able to access the impact of imperialism and postcolonialism reflected in modern English drama.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
Week Date(Tue.)Class
1 9.14 Introduction to the class; Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice
(Barker), 247-78
2 9.21 1 Postcolonialism in A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary
Theory (Selden and Widdowson), 188-97
2 Introduction and Chapter 1 in Black Skin, White Mask (Fanon),
1-40
3 9.28 3 Edward Said: Orientalism and beyond in Postcolonial Theory
(Moore-Gilbert), 34-73
4 Chapter 1 in Orientalism
4 10.5 5 Gayatri Spivak in Postcolonial Theory (Moore-Gilbert), 74-113
① (Indo-Anglian) Kirish Karnard’s Hayavadana
5 10.12 6 Homi Bhabha in Postcolonial Theory (Moore-Gilbert), 114-51
7 Chapter 4 in The Location of Culture (Bhabha), 85-92
② (American) David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly
6 10.19 8 Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic,
③ (American) August Wilson’s The Fences
7 10.26 Lecture by Professor Chun-yeh Wang
8 11.2 Brian Crow’s “Derek Walcott”
④ (Caribbean; Trinidad) Derek Walcott’s Pantomime
10 11.16 Brian Crow’s “Wole Soyinka”
⑤ (African; Nigerian) Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed
10 11.16 Walder’s Ch. 6 “Caribbean and Black British Poetry”
(African; Nigerian)
⑥ Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
11 11.23 Brian Crow’s “Athol Fugard”
⑦ (African; South Africa) Athol Fugard’s Master Harold
… and the boys
12 11.30 Bruce King’s Ch. 5 “Canada”
⑧ (Canadian) Thomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters
13 12.7 Bill Ashcroft’s Post-colonial Transformation Ch. 9
“Globalization”
⑨ (American) Lynn Nottage’s Ruined
14 12.14 ⑩ (British) Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine
15 12.21 ⑪ (British) Timberlake Wertenbaker’s New Anatomy
16 12.28 Report on Term Paper outline
17 1.4 Term Paper Conference
18 1/11 Independent Review; Term Paper due
Participation in discussion, 2 to 3 oral presentations, and a term paper of 10 pages long due one week after the last class meet. Students are required to send their study questions related to their weekly reading materials to their classmates in charge of the oral presentation before 5 pm every Wednesday. They are encouraged to answer their own study questions in their weekly journals with quotations and MLA citations. Students are encouraged to go to a live performance and write their afterthoughts on it. This review or comment on the play will be considered extra credits to their grades.
Grade
weekly journals 10%
oral presentations 30%
term paper 60%
Required textbook
Gilbert, Helen and Tompkins, Joanne. Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. Routledge, 1996. 822.009358 G464
References
Adam, Barbara and Stuart Allan, eds. Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary
Critique After Postmodernism. London: UCL P, 1995.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory
and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989.
---. The Postcolonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995. 820.9358 P857
---. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London: Routledge, 1998
Basch, Linda, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States. Langhorne: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1994. 304.8 B298
Barker, Chris, and Emma A. Jane. Cultural Studies : Theory and Practice, 5th edition. SAGE, 2016. 306 B255 2016
Bery, Ashok and Patricia Murray ed. Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations. London: Macmillan, 2000. 809 C737-I
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
---. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial & Postcolonial Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995. 820.99171241 B671
Brinker-Gabler, Gisela ed. Encountering the Other(s): Studies in Leterature, History, and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 809 E56
Bulbeck, Chilla. Re-orienting Western Feminisms: Women’s Diversity in a Postcolonial World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 305.42 B933
Cartelli, Thomas. Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations. London: Routledge, 1999. 822.33 C322
Chambers, Iain and Lidia Curti, eds. The Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies,
Divided Horizons. London: Routledge, 1996.
Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural
Studies. Bloomington: Indiana, 1993.
Cribb, T.J. ed. Imagined Commonwealths: Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English. London: Macmillan. 1999. 820.99171241 I31
Crow, Brian and Chris Banfield. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre.
Cambridge UP, 1996.
Dirlik, Arif. “The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global
Capitalism.” Critical Inquiry 20.2 (Winter 1994): 328-56.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York:
Grove, 1967.
---. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove, 1963.
Fuery, Patrick and Nick Mansfield. Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997. 306 F954
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford UK: Blackwell, 1983.
Gilbert, Helen and Tompkins, Joanne. Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Harvard University Press, 1993. 305.896073 G489-1
Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler, eds. Cultural Studies. New
York: Routledge, 1992.
Habermas, Jurgen. The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory. Ed. Ciaran
Cronin and Pablo De Greiff. Cambridge: MIT P, 1998.
Hall, Stuart. “The Emergence of Cultural Studies and the Crisis of the Humanities.”
October 53 (1990): 11-23.
Hogan, Patrick Colm. Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 820.99171241 H714
Juan, E. San. Beyond Postcolonial Theory. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 909.09724 S195
Jussawalla, Feroza and Reed Way Dasenbrock. Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1992. 820.99171241 J96
Kahn, Joel S. Culture, Multiculture, Postculture. London: Sage, 1995.
King, Bruce ed. Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama since 1960.
New York: St. Martin, 1992.
---. New National and Post-colonial Literatures: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Korte, Barbara. English Travel Writing from Pilgrimages to Postcolonial
Explorations. Trans. Catherine Matthias. London: Macmillan, 2000. 820.9355
K85
Lazarus, Neil. Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 306.209172409045 L431
Loomba, Ania and Maritn Orkin ed. Postcolonial Shakespeares. London: Routledge, 1998. 822.33 P857
---. Colonialism/ Postcolonialism. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
López, Alfred J. Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 801. 950904 L864
McDermott, Douglas. “The Theatre and Its Audience.” The American Stage: Social
and Economic Issues from the Colonial Period to the Present. Edited by Ron
Engle and Tice L. Miller. Cambridge UP, 1993.
Minh-Ha, Trinh T. When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural
Politics. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Moore-Gilbert, Bart. Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics. London:
Verso, 1997. 325.3 M822
Parker, Michael and Roger Starkey ed. Postcolonial Literatures: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott. London: Macmillan, 1995. 820.99171241 P857
Prakash, Gyan. After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995. 325.32 A258
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London:
Routledge, 1992.
Okonkwo, Chidi. Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1999. 823.914099171241 041
Quayson, Ato. Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? Cambridge: Polity, 2000. 820.99171241 Q2
Raghavacharyulu, D. V. K. The Critical Response: Selected Essays on the American, Commonwealth, Indian and British Traditions in Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1980
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
---. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1994. 950.072 S132
Sardar, Ziauddin. Orientalism. Bickingham: Open UP, 1999.
Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary
Theory. 3rd ed. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 2013. 801.950904 S464 2013
Social Theory. London and New York: Verso, 1989.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Outside in the Teaching Machine. New York:
Routledge, 1993.
---. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999. 325.3 S761
Talib, Ismail S. The Language of postcolonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 2002. 820.99171241 T146
Tomlinson, John. Globalization and Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999.
Walder, Dennis. Postcolonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 820.99171241 W163
Wang, Chun-yen (2014, Feb). “Bio-memory in Postcolonial Taiwan: Ethnic Identity
and Chinese Drama in Taiwan.” Sinoglossia: Taiwan, China and Beyond,
University of Texas, Austin, USA.
Wang, Chun-yen (2013, Jun). “Inside/Outside the Colonial: 146 Taiwanese Islanders
in the 1920s.” Except Asia: Agamben's Work in Transcultural Perspective,
NTNU, Taiwan.
Werbner, Pnina and Tariq Modood ed. Debating Cultural Hybridity. London: Zed Books, 1997. 305.80094 D286
Werbner, Richard ed. Memory and the Postcolony: African Anthropology and the Critique of Power. London: Zed Books, 1998. 301.096 M533
West, Cornel. “The New Cultural Politics of Difference.” October 53 (1990): 93-109.
White, Jonathan ed. Recasting the World: Writing after Colonialism. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1993. 820.99171241 R294
Young, Robert J. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race. London
and New York: Routledge, 1995.
于善祿。〈華文戲劇的後殖民反霸文化策略〉。
http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/yushanlu/post/1285850429
汪俊彥（2018 年 08 月）。〈沉浸表演與臺灣身份：新世代劇場觀演與生命政
治〉。第 38 次 韓國中國學會 中國學國際學術大會，首爾，韓國。
汪俊彥（2018 年 05 月）。〈反現代的現代劇場：李國修劇場軌跡〉。臺灣當代
劇場發展軌跡四十年論壇。
林鶴宜。《臺灣戲劇史》。台北：空大，2003年。
殷寶寧。《情慾．國族．後殖民──誰的中山北路？》。台北：左岸，2006年。
陳光興。《去帝國──亞洲作為方法》。台北：行人，2006年。
廖炳惠 (1994) 。《回顧現代: 後現代與後殖民論文集》。台北: 麥田。
馮翰士、廖炳惠主編 (1998)。《文學、認同、主體性》。台北: 中華民國比較文
學學會東海大學外國語文學系。
陶東風 (2000)。《後殖民主義》。台北: 揚智。
張小虹 (1995)。重塑法農:《黑皮膚¸白面具》中的性別∕種族政治〉。《中外
文學》24卷5期¸頁39-57。