1. Conclusion Conclusion 1. Mapping: Visual Mapping & Cognitive Mapping World Literatures in English andContinuation 1. Taiwanese counterparts; 2. Our Guests/Friends

2. What is Mapping and what is it for? Visual mapping – the authors and characters are not out of nowhere. Visual mapping Cognitive mapping – a way to manage your own knowledge and to locate oneself Cognitive mapping I: Contextualization & Artistic Concretization Contextualization II. Major ThemesMajor Themes III. Self-LocationSelf-Location

3. Mapping India Canada Caribbean Area

4. South Asia Lahore Shahjahanpur Kelara

5. The Caribbean Islands & their migrants Canada The U.S. “Children of the Sea”; Fugees Annie John M. Cliff, B. Marley Wide Sargasso Sea Sugar Cane Alley England France

6. CanadaCanada

7. Lake Huron Toronto

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Continuation Continuation (I) 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.)

12. Continuation Continuation (I) 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》． )

13. Continuation Continuation (I) 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》）

14. Continuation Continuation (II) 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

15. Continuation Continuation (II) Our Guest Speakers 2. 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.