113年第1學期-0159 文討：非裔美國文學黑人男性特質的探討 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Attendance and class participation	15	Being active in class discussions is required.
Literary responses	30	You are required to write an essay (500-800 words) on a topic of your choosing and complete short essay question sheets.
Oral presentations	20	Throughout the semester, you will be asked to do 2 oral presentations with a partner. You will present on one or two selected African-American predominant figure(s) in the 20th century, either by handout or PowerPoint slides.
Creative Writing	35	You and your group members will work together to creat a short story.

教育目標

By the end of the course, you should be able to a) conduct an academic research on a topic regarding black masculinity/femininity in any African-American literary works covered in class, b) present your academic research and sound argument, c) engage in literary, socioeconomic, historical, and cultural discussions on the issue of racial and gender inequality, and d) fully develop your independent and critical thinking on this highly touchy issue.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：三/5,6[LAN012]
修課班級：外文系3,4
修課年級：3年級以上
選課備註：網路選課

參考書目

Primary Readings:
1. Gaines, Earnest J. A Lesson Before Dying. 1st ed. New York: Vintage, 1994.
2. Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Vintage, 2004.

Secondary and Selective Readings:
1. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam, 1997. 93-111.
2. Baldwin, James. “Freaks and American Ideal of Manhood.” James Baldwin: Collected Essays. New York: Libr. of Amer., 1998. 815-29.
3. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Vintage, 1995.
4. Hurston, Zora Neale. “How It Feels to be Colored Me.” The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton, 1997. 1008-11.
5. Northup, Solomon. 12 Years a Slave. New York: Atria, 2013.
6. Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself. 2nd Revised Ed. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997.
7. Walker, Alice. “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton, 1997. 2380-2387.
8. Wright, Richard. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an Autobiographical Sketch. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Norton, 1997. 1388-96.