南山大学

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指定
 必
期間
 春学期
単位
 ２
年次
 3
担当者
 PURCELL William
他の科目との関連
他学科履修 不可
副題 Literature and the British Empire: The Empire Writes Back
Joyce Cary and Chinua Achebe
授業概要 　This seminar is an introduction to colonial and postcolonial studies. Colonial and postcolonial studies is an interdisciplinary field (the underlying rationale of the Eibeigakka program) that includes: history, society, literature and art, culture, political science, gender studies, religion, economics, and many more.
　Seminar I will focus on Joyce Cary. Cary and Achebe have never met, but their names are often linked together in discussions of literature and the British Empire. That is because their novels form a dialogue about colonialism. Cary's representations of Africa, Africans, and colonialism were once widely accepted by Western readers as real. However, as a university student in Nigeria, Achebe read and disliked the way Cary represented Africans and African life. He decided someone had to write back to Cary, correcting Cary's misrepresentations.
学修目標 We will read Mister Johnson. (We will also watch a 1991 film version of Mister Johnson). As we read we will pay attention to what each reveals about:
　●　British colonial history and policy in Africa
　●　Western attitudes and misconceptions about Africa and Africans
　●　the consequences for Britain and the British people of empire
　●　traditional African life and culture
　●　the experience and consequences of colonization for African peoples and their cultures.
授業計画 First Semester Topics:
−−What is fiction? How to read a story or novel.
−−Postcolonial studies and the study of fiction.
−−British colonial history and policy in Africa
−−Reading and viewing Mister Johnson
−−Western attitudes and misconceptions about Africa and Africans
授業時間外の学習（準備学習など） １. Students will be required to read the assigned chapters of the novel under discussion before coming to class. They will, as well, be required to prepare questions for discussion.
評価方法 Class attendance and participation, presentations, report.
テキスト Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson
その他 This seminar will be done in English
(For students who are serious about using English and want to challenge themselves.)