Week Date(Wed.)Class

1 2.18 Introduction to the class; Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice

(Barker), 247-78

2 2.25 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 3.3 3 Edward Said: Orientalism and beyond in Postcolonial Theory

(Moore-Gilbert), 34-73

4 Chapter 1 in Orientalism

4 3.10 5 Gayatri Spivak in Postcolonial Theory (Moore-Gilbert), 74-113

① (Indo-Anglian) Kirish Karnard’s Hayavadana

5 3.17 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 3.24 8 Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic,

③ (American) August Wilson’s The Fences

7 3.31 9 Brian Crow’s “Derek Walcott”

④ (Caribbean; Trinidad) Derek Walcott’s Pantomime

8 4.7 Lecture by Professor Chun-yen Wang

9 4.14 10 Brian Crow’s “Wole Soyinka”

⑤ (African; Nigerian) Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed

10 4.21 11 Walder’s Ch. 6 “Caribbean and Black British Poetry”

(African; Nigerian)

6 Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

11 4.28 12 Brian Crow’s “Athol Fugard”

⑦ (African; South Africa) Athol Fugard’s Master Harold

… and the boys

12 5.5 13 Bruce King’s Ch. 5 “Canada”

⑧ (Canadian) Thomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters

13 5.12 14 Bill Ashcroft’s Post-colonial Transformation Ch. 9

“Globalization”

⑨ (American) Lynn Nottage’s Ruined

14 5.19 Holiday

15 5.26 ⑩ (British) Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine

16 6.2 Lecture by Professor Shan-lu Yu

Term paper topic due

17 6.9 ? (British) Timberlake Wortenbaker’s New Anatomy

Term paper outline presentation

18 6.16 Final Exam Week

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 5 pm every Monday. 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 proportion

weekly journals 10%

oral presentations 30%

term paper 60%

Required textbook

Gilbert, Helen and Tompkins, Joanne. Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. Routledge, 1996.

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