COD 2019 - CP003
Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: "Reading Transcultural Literatures: Delving further into Auto-ethnographies"
Literature lovers and Literature & Language teachers interested in "border literatures" and in reading about diverse cultures in English
1
sessions, start: 27-Apr
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2019
Level: Culture Programme
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 800.00
ARS 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00
ARS 800.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 April 2019 | 09:00 am | 12:00 pm |
Facilitator/s
Florencia Perduca
Literature lovers and Literature & Language teachers interested in "border literatures" and in reading about diverse cultures in English
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring “hybrid literatures” in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise participants’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To delve into the concepts of “auto-ethnographies”, “border writing”, “displacement”, “dislocation” and “diaspora” as well as “travelling cultures” and “dynamic identities”.
- To look for and build strategies to raise participants’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To delve into the concepts of “auto-ethnographies”, “border writing”, “displacement”, “dislocation” and “diaspora” as well as “travelling cultures” and “dynamic identities”.
A set of texts by male/female transcultural writers.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach “Border Literatures in Englishes”
2) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
3) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflecting on how they mean.
2) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
3) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflecting on how they mean.
- Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
- Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
- Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
- Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.