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1. Mapping: Visual Mapping & Cognitive Mapping

World Literatures in English

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1. Taiwanese counterparts;

2. Our Guests/Friends

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 ThemesIII. Self-Location

Mapping

India

Canada

Caribbean Area

South Asia

Lahore

Shahjahanpur

Kelara

The Caribbean Islands & their migrants

Canada

The U.S.

““Children of the Sea”; FugeesChildren of the Sea”; Fugees

Annie John M. Cliff, B. Marley

Wide Sargasso Sea Sugar Cane Alley

England France

Canada

Lake Huron

Toronto

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.

Language

Cognitive mapping II

A. Colonization Government and colonization: 1. control by categorization and “help” with lack

of understanding.2. 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

1. Children’s growth and education

2. Marriage, sex and child birth

3. Mother-daughter relationship C. Diaspora, Gender and Writing

1. Writing –e.g. “revising the written record” (Cliff); “bearing witness ”(Danticat)

2. Treatment of colonial/personal/cultural past.

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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.)

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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》《春光乍洩》 vs. many novels such as 〈魚骸〉、平路〈台灣奇蹟〉〈玉米田之死〉；張大春〈將軍碑〉、〈四喜憂國〉；林燿德《高砂百合》 and such films as 《青少年哪吒》、《只要為你活一天》、《望鄉》． )

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Taiwanese counterparts; C. gender and race: Orientalism.   How have

Taiwanese women suffered from the colonizers' rape （ e.g. Comfort Women, 慰安婦） , or from double victimization by both patriarchy and colonialism （李昂〈戴貞操帶的魔鬼〉《迷園》） ?  How have Taiwanese women  assert themselves against both?  （平路 《行路天涯》）

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Our Guest Speakers

Sintia Molina;

Assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature, Center for Ethnic Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York.

Work: Naturalism in the Cuban Novel (in Spanish 2001)

Ed. On Transnationalism in Dominican disapora

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Our Guest Speakers2. Yi-Chun Tritia Lin;

BA in Normal U. MA in Tamkang U. Ph.D. in SUNY Stony Brook Assistant professor of English, Ethnic Studies

and Women’s Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York the City University of New York.

Work on a comparative studies of the Asian Pacific and Caribbean Writing; one special issue of Women’s Studies.