Culture and Literature in the Global Context

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강의학기

2016년 1학기

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This course will introduce students to the movements of cultures and literature from the Christian perspectives, and help them to understand the world in the current global context, and then build up their Christian leadership in the future. In this semester, students will read and discuss various literary works and articles focusing on "postmodernism" and “feminist and gender issues” and so that they can grasp how women began to open their mouths for their core values that had been oppressed for centuries in the male-centered world, such as human rights, equality, liberty, and so on. It will be advisable for the students to learn and understand the new roles of women in the changing societies and shifting modes of life in the postmodern era (from first wave feminism through postfeminism or the third wave feminism). However, the real goal of this course is not only understand women’s positions and roles from the feminist perspectives but also from Christian world views.

차시별 강의

1.	Introduction to postmodernism: 1. The Rise of Postmodernim	Transition from modernism to postmodernism
2.	2. The Ways of Seeing the World	Difference in seeing the world from moderinism to postmodernism, Postmodernist perspectives, Resisting Grand Narratives by Jean-Francois Lyotard
3.	3. Politics and Identity	The postmodernist novels appear as a challenge to the humanist assumption of a unified self and an integrated consciousness; postmodernist skepticism was also directed to the very means of rational communication itself.
4.	4. The Culture of Postmodernism	Postmodernist art resists the master narrative of modernism, and the authority of high art which modernism itself takes from the past, and it worries about its own language; an alliance between postmodernist ideas and the artistic culture has led to a skeptical relativist critique of the claims of mimesis or realism in the arts.
5.	5. The Postmodern Condition	Confidence in Truth was lost in postmodernism; realism and reliable sense of past history were also lost. Postmodernism is an attack on authority and reliability—in philosophy, narrative, and the relationship of the arts to truth; skeptical despair about the reality of politics and institutions of our common social life
6.	6. The Early Feminism Suffragette (1915) directed by Sarah Gavron	In the period 1550–1700 no legislated improvement in the position of women, not any formal rights in local or national government, including the right to vote; no regular university education; no recourse to law for equality of pay and conditions, and married women had no legal independence from their husbands (No economic independence). But many women writers touched on feminist opinions denying the inferiority of women and claiming equality and educational rights in their essays and letters.
7.	7. First Wave Feminism The House of Dolls(1879) by Henrik Ibsen	Modern feminism begins with Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and was followed by the 1850s, Decade of feminist Activists such as Langham Place Circle in England: a group of middle-class, activist women who discussed and published their views about women. American Feminism was also very active like Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, when 300 people (40 men) met to demand an end to all discrimination based on sex.
8.	Mid-term Exam	Mid-term exam (Postmodernims and Eary and the first feminism)
9.	8. Second Wave Feminism	Betty Friedan in her Feminine Mystique (1965) said that feminism was dead just after they got the final right of vote to the women born after 1920; the new feminism is the product of a changed social and political context and possesses a sharper and far more radical feminism consciousness; Founding Moments were anti-Vietnam War and Student movements of the 1960s, NOW(National Organization for Women) in 1966, the Demonstration against the Miss America Beauty Contest in 1968, etc.
10.	9. Postfeminism	The term Postfeminism has never been clearly defined, but the term itself originated from within the media in the early 1980s. In the Concise Oxford Dictionary, “postfeminism” is defined as “of or relating to the ideas, attitudes, etc., which ignore or reject feminist ideas of the 1960s and subsequent decades. Postfeminism becomes a pluralistic epistemology dedicated to disrupting universalizing patterns of thought, along with postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism. The other expression “third wave” came with the entwined twin imperatives of continuity and change.
11.	10. Feminism and Film Sleeping Beauty (1959) vs. Maleficent (2014)	The journal Women and Film was published in 1972, declaring itself to be part of the second wave feminism by taking the struggle of women’s image in film and women’s roles in the film industry. Typically they struggled with women’s image in film and women’s roles in the film industry, focusing on “the ways to transform the derogatory and immoral attitudes the ruling class and their male lackeys have towards women and other oppressed peoples. Feminists reread the fairly tales in feminist perspectives and make parody or remaking of the original fairly tales such as Sleeping Beauty (1959) as Maleficent (2014)
12.	11. Feminism and Pop Culture	Feminist media studies reject the ideology and scientism employed by the male-centered concerns and empiricist/positivist methods of the 1930s-1960s, This move can be categorized as one from structuralism to poststructuralism to postmodernism. This move has resulted in more complex accounts of media practice, representation, and consumption. . Three main areas of feminist approaches to pop culture are Production, Textual representation and Reception. The three main ways the correlation of gender of the producer is impacting the product: The institutional and professional constraints on women working in a male-dominated media industry; a more complex concern with the language of representation and the need to identify; a specific women’s perspective or aesthetic.
13.	12. Feminism and Literature	Male authored works were regarded as canonical authors, taught on core courses in the patriarchal institutions (universities). Only a few female writers were included in core courses; Feminist issues were often avoided or belittled in literature; at the end of 1960s feminist-oriented approaches to the texts began; Feminists focused on representations of women in male-authored works, dealing with stereotypes of women and women’s oppression, women as sexual objects.
14.	13. Feminism and Christainity	Some of feminist Christians denounced Christianity’s universe sexist suppositions. Fot hem the worship of God the Father looked like the projection of male-centered human ideology into the realm of the Eternal. They accused western patriarchal societies of making God in their own image. Christian feminism is a slightly contentious term in some sense. In more recent years, feminists from Christian churches in non-white and third world contexts, have made a strong case for reading the tradition from their own distinctive perspectives. Feminists from the third world are increasingly demanding to speak for themselves and their own communities.
15.	Team Presentations	Each of the groups is supposed to present their own research and reports
	Final Exam	Final exam includes all the feminist anf postfeminist issues