| 1 | Introduction
Film "A Veiled Revolution" | Required Readings
Rifaat, Alifa. Distant View of the Minaret. New York: Quartet Books, 1983.
Supplementary Readings
Allende, Isabel. "Pinochet Without Hatred." The New York Times (January 17, 1999): 25-27.
Garibay, Ricardo. "Pablo Neruda's Funeral." New York: Entelechy Press Corp., 1973. (transcript of recording of funeral) | | 2 | Distant View of the Minaret | Required Readings
Distant View of the Minaret. (cont.)
Supplementary Readings
Crossette, Barbara. "Testing the Limits of Tolerance as Cultures Mix: Does Freedom Mean Accepting Rituals that Repel the West?" The New York Times (March 6, 1999): A15, and A17 .
Inda, Jules. "Behind the Veil Debate." Utne Reader (March/April 1992): 23-24.
Lerner, George. "To Us, Women's Liberation is the Unveiling of the Mind." The Progressive (April 1992): 32-35.
Thompson, Ginger. "No U.S. Asylum for a Woman Threatened with Genital Cutting." The New York Times (April 25, 1999): 27-28. | | 3 | Distant View of the Minaret (cont.) | Required Readings
El Saadawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero. New Jersey: Zed Books, 1983. | | 4 | Woman at Point Zero
Teaching Group | Required Readings
Ba, Mariama. So Long a Letter. Oxford: Heinemann, 1989.
Supplementary Readings
Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Dallal, Jenine Abboushi. "The Perils of Occidentalism: How Arab Novelists are Driven to Write for Western Readers." The Islamic World (April 24, 1998): 8-9.
Gocek, Fatma Muge, and Shiva Balaghi, eds. Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. | | 5 | Woman at Point Zero (cont.) | Required Readings
So Long a Letter. (cont.) | | 6 | So Long a Letter | Supplementary Readings
Esonwanne, Uzo. "Enlightenment Epistemology and 'Aesthetic Cognition': Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter." The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature. pp. 82-100.
Nnaemeka, Obioma. "Urban Spaces, Women's Places: Polygamy as Sign in Mariama Bâ's Novels." The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature. pp. 162-191. | | 7 | So Long a Letter (cont.) | Required Readings
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. London: Women's Press, 2001. | | 8 | Nervous Conditions | Required Readings
Nervous Conditions. (cont.)
Supplementary Readings
Basu, Biman. "Trapped and Troping: Allegries of the Transnational Intellectual in Tsitsi Dangaremba's Nervous Conditions." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 28, no. 3 (July 1997): 7-24.
Gorle, Gilian. "Fighting the Good Fight: What Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions Says About Language and Power." Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: Language and Power. pp. 179, and 192.
Moyana, Rosemary. "Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: an Attempt in the Feminist Tradition." Zambezia. 1994, XXI (1), pp. 23-42.
Nair, Supriya. "Melancholic Women: The Intellectual Hysteric(s) in Nervous Conditions." Research in African Literatures. pp. 130-139.
Uwakweh, Pauline A. "Debunking Patriarchy: The Liberational Quality of Voicing in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Research in African Literatures. pp. 75-84. | | 9 | Nervous Conditions (cont.) | Required Readings
Nervous Conditions. (cont.) | | 11 | Nervous Conditions (cont.) | Required Readings
Altman, David. "For Chinese Women's Ears Only." The Christian Science Monitor. 11 Oct. 1995.
Barlow, Tani E., ed. Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Book Reviews: "The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices." The New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, and Kirkus Review.
Chinese History: Time line: 1921- present.
Dai, Jinhua, and Mayfair Yang. "A Conversation with Huang Shuqing." Positions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 790-805.
Liu, Kang, and Tang Xiobing, eds. Politics, Ideology and Literary Discourse in Modern China. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Liu, Lydia. "The Female Body and Nationalist Discourse: The Field of Life and Death Revistied." In Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Edited by Inderpal Grewal, and Caren Kaplan. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, pp. 37-62.
Confucius. The Analects. (Selections)
Teng, Jinhua Emma. "The Construction of the 'Traditional Chinese Woman' in the Western Academy: A Critical Review." Signs (Autumn, 1996): 115-151.
Wolf, Margery, and Roxanne Witke, eds. Women in Chinese Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.
"Women in China: Free Market Outcasts." Revolutionary Worker Online.
Yang, Gladys. "A New Woman Writer Chen Rong and Her Story 'At Middle Age.'" In Chinese Literature. Vol. 10. Beijing, China, 1980. | | 12 | Chinese Short Stories
Teaching Group | Required Readings
Yang, Gladys. "A New Woman Writer Chen Rong and Her Story 'At Middle Age'." In Chinese Literature 10, 1980. Beijing, China. | | 13 | Chinese Film | Required Readings
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003.
Film
To Live. Directed by Zhang Yimou.
Woman, Demon, Human. Directed by Huang Shuqing. | | 14 | Oryx and Crake
Teaching Group | Required Readings
Oryx and Crake. (cont.) | | 15 | Oryx and Crake (cont.) | Required Readings
Oryx and Crake. (cont.) | | 17 | Margaret Atwood in Class | Required Readings
Xinran. The Good Women of China. New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. | | 18 | The Good Women of China
Teaching Group | Required Readings
The Good Women of China. (cont.) | | 19 | The Good Women of China (cont.) | Required Readings
Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. | | 20 | House of the Spirits
Teaching Group | Required Readings
House of the Spirits. (cont.) | | 21 | House of the Spirits (cont.) | Required Readings
House of the Spirits. (cont.) | | 22 | House of the Spirits (cont.) | Required Readings
House of the Spirits. (cont.) | | 23 | House of the Spirits (cont.) | Required Readings
House of the Spirits. (cont.) | | 25 | Japanese Films | Required Readings
Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen. New York: Grove Press, 1993.
Supplementary Readings
Carter, Albert H. "Review of Kitchen." Studies in Short Fiction (1993): 614-615.
Gelb, Joyce, and Marian Lief Palley, eds. Women of Japan aned Korea: Continuity and Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko, and Atsuko Kameda, eds. Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future. New York: City University of New York Feminist Press, 1995.
Garrison, Deborah. "Day-O!" New Yorker 68 (January 25, 1993): 109.
Iwao, Sumiko. The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Kristof, Nicholas D. "In Japan, Brutal Comics for Women." The New York Times (November 5, 1995): 1, and 6.
Kusaka, Kimindo. "Do Japanese women Want Total Equality?" Economic Eye (June, 1984): 19-21.
Strauss, Neil. "A Japanese TV Show That Pairs Beauty and Pain." The New York Times (July 14, 1998): 2. Section E.
Tolbert, Kathryn. "Career or Motherhood: Harsh Choice in Japan." International Herald Tribune (Aug. 15, 2000.) | | 26 | Kitchen
Teaching Group | Required Readings
Yoshimoto, Banana. "Moonlight Shadows." in Kitchen. New York: Grove Press, 1993. | | 27 | Moonlight Shadows | Required Readings
"Moonlight Shadows" (cont.) | | 28 | Last Day of Class
Final Discussion | none |
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