臺灣小說與戰後都市經驗Taiwan Fiction and Postwar Urban Experience

　　本課程之重點在大量閱讀戰後臺灣小說之英文譯本，期能藉此深入了解從一九四九年以後到二十世紀末的臺灣小說中所反映出之都市經驗。與臺灣小說有關之都市自然以臺北為主，但同時也包括了其他都市，例如林海音的北平、白先勇的紐約與芝加哥，以及楊青矗筆下的高雄。 　　此一課程分成兩個部分。在一週的導論過後，第一組指定閱讀作業以各個不同時期作家分類：包括「五零年代懷鄉書寫」的林海音（《城南舊事》）、「六零年代現代主義」的白先勇（《孽子》與關於其他城市的短篇小說）、「七零年代鄉土寫實主義」的陳映真（「華盛頓大樓」系列短篇小說）與黃春明（短篇小說〈小寡婦〉），以及「八零年代都市文學」的黃凡（〈人人需要秦德夫〉、〈東埔街〉與〈雨夜〉等短篇小說）與張大春（短篇小說〈公寓導遊〉、〈遼寧街116巷〉與長篇小說《野孩子》）等等。 　　第二組指定閱讀作業以五個不同主題來進行分類，包括：「都市與婚姻」、「都市與勞動」、「都市與政治」、「都市與眷村」以及「都市與消費」。第一個主題探討都市人婚姻中外遇與離婚的問題（李昂、朱天文與朱天心），第二個主題探討都市人的工作問題（楊青矗、袁瓊瓊與蕭颯），第三、第四個主題探討都市生活的政治面向，聚焦1987年解嚴後都市生活的種種改變（黃凡、張　大春、朱天心與張啟疆），第五個主題則以朱天文與朱天心姊妹的短篇作品探討世紀末都市生活中的消費文化。 By reading extensively the works of postwar Taiwan fiction in English translation, this course aims at exploring the urban experience as reflected in the Taiwan fiction from 1949 to the end of the 20th century. The focus, of course, should be Taipei, but we also include the Peking of Lin Hai-yin [林海音], the New York and Chicago of Pai Hsien-yung [白先勇], and the Kaohsiung of Yang Ch’ing-ch’u [楊青矗]. This course can be seen as divided into two parts. First, after the introduction after the first week, the first group of assigned readings include works of writers from different periods: Lin Hai-yin of the 50s (Memories of Peking), Pai Hsien-yung (Crystal Boys) of the Modernist 60s, Chen Ying-chen (the “Washington Building” series stories) and Huang Chun-ming (“The Young Widow”) of the Nativist-realist 70s, and Haung Fan (“Tung-pu Street” and “Rainy Night”) and Chang Ta-chun (“A Guided Tour of the Apartment Complex,” “Alley 116, Liaoning Street,” and Wild Kids) of the urban-fiction 80s. The second group of readings focuses on five different themes, which are “the city and marriage,” “the city and labor,” “the city and politics,” “the city and compounds of military families,” and “the city and consumption.” The first theme explores city people’s problems of extramarital affairs and divorce, the second the problems the working class in the city faces, the third and fourth the political aspects of city life after the 1987 lift of martial law in Taiwan, and, finally, the fifth the consumption culture in the fin-de-siecle city. The writers included in this groups are Li Ang [李昂], the Chu sisters [朱天文與朱天心], Hsiao Sa [蕭颯], Yang Ch’ing-ch’u [楊青矗], and Chang Chi-jiang [張啟疆].