國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講 DFLL Faculty Colloquium （若需公務人員終身學習時數認證者，研習後可登錄時數2小時） The Politics and Poetics of Slumming in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and Abbas Kiarostami's The Taste of Cherry Speaker: Dr. Sean Allan (DFLL Project Assistant Professor) 演講人：項亞倫助理教授（臺大外文系專案計畫助理教授） Moderator: Dr. Hsin-ying Li (DFLL Associate Professor) 主持人：李欣穎副教授（臺大外文系副教授） Time: 3:30 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 時間：2009年3月18日（週三）下午3:30-5:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, Gallery of NTU History (Old Main Library) 地點：臺大校史館（舊總圖）一樓外文系新會議室 Abstract: This presentation will look at the ways in which literature and film use the "slumming" subject to observe the political and aesthetic significance of interpersonal and intercultural dynamics. I use "slumming" both to move away from the sharp divisions implied in Pratt's "contact zone" theory and to try to navigate a more nuanced understanding of the concept of "slumming" as act, state-of-being, and accusation. I first propose that "slumming" is not necessarily an ironic act but can also be the mode of a quest spurred by a crisis of conscience or a crisis of circumstance. The slumming subject is also anxious because he or she is aware that the process of slumming is always already suspect, for the identity formation or the agency that a slumming suspect seeks is often read as an act of malicious appropriation. The presentation, concentrating on Cormac McCarthy's novel Suttree, Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man, and Abbas Kiarostami's film The Taste of Cherry, will look at the way the slumming subject can be used to interrogate issues and assumptions about race, class and ethnicity. These interrogations lead to an understanding of how the representation of slumming can be an aesthetic act. --

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