COD 2020 - CP015

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Jamaica Kincaid: A Postcolonial Feminist Voice

All lovers of Literature

1 sessions, start: 04-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2020
Level: Culture Programme
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 1200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 1200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 04 April 2020 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda holds an MA in Literature and Foreign Language Teaching from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has been working in the field of teacher education and Primary curriculum development for over 20 years. She has been sharing her experience as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer in Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia. She is a co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
All lovers of Literature
We will read and discuss postcolonial feminist writer, Jamaica Kincaid, and her efforts to create a narrative that exposes the struggle the former slave communities in the Caribbean undergo to develop a positive sense of self. Within a postcolonial context, the female voice is suffocated by mainstream ideology and by strongly rooted local patriarchal structures. We will focus on the role of literature to develop social awareness and discuss how Kincaid’s literary choices enhance her voice, in particular her personal experience and autobiographical traits.

In this reading breakfast, we intend:

- To continue creating a reading community of lovers of literature.
- To continue developing reading strategies to tackle the ambiguous nature of literary texts.
- To learn about and explore Jamaica Kincaid’s work.
A selection of Jamaica Kincaid’s texts: Narrative, short story & essay.

Reading List:

Kincaid, Jamaica. (1988) A Small Place. (First essay. Pages 3 to 19)
https://www.d.umn.edu/~pfarrell/Latin%20America/pdfs%20of%20readings/Jamaica%20Kinkaid%20A%20Small%20Place%20EXCERPTED.pdf

---. (1990) “Mariah” (Chapter 2, pp. 17 - 41) in Lucy. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux

---. (1978) “Girl” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl
Workshop: Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss the texts, the topics introduced and the construction of otherness.
Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths G., Tiffin H. (22002) The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. Londres: Routledge (Introduction)

- - - . (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, London: Routledge

Kincaid, Jamaica. (1988) A Small Place. (First essay. Pages 3 to 19)
https://www.d.umn.edu/~pfarrell/Latin%20America/pdfs%20of%20readings/Jamaica%20Kinkaid%20A%20Small%20Place%20EXCERPTED.pdf

---. (1990) “Mariah” (Chapter 2, pp. 17 - 41) in Lucy. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux

---. (1978) “Girl” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl
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