COD 2006 - D024

Global Voices in English

English and Literature teachers interested in "the new literatures" and in reading texts from a context-based perspective that will lend itself to work with cultural identity in the classroom.

3 sessions, start: 26-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: A distancia
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 45.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 26 June 2006 Online session
2 10 July 2006 Online session
3 24 July 2006 Online session

Facilitator/s

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Education Management and MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course Coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE Literature and IB English Language and Literature. She is the Overall Head of English Department at Tarbut School.
English and Literature teachers interested in "the new literatures" and in reading texts from a context-based perspective that will lend itself to work with cultural identity in the classroom.
- Promote a context-based approach to Indian English and African Writing so as to make the world view of the writers accessible to teachers and students. - Look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of cultural gaps and specific worlds of meaning ensuring that interpretation emerges from the text. - Reflect on the pedagogical implications of exploring cultural and linguistic identity issues, and of reading the texts from various perspectives in the teenage classroom. - Discuss which classroom activities work better as points of entry different into this perspective.
- Session I: Indian English Writing: a set of poems and short stories by Kamala Das, Ambai and Nissim Ezekiel. A bird’s eye view of Indian English Writing in India. Main trends and writers. Background of Kamala Das, Ambai and Nissim Ezekiel. Male and female perspectives on Indianess. A context-based approach to cultural capsules. Signs of Indianness in the texts chosen. Activities to work with these texts in class. Linguistic identity. - Session II: African Writing: a set of poems and short stories by Patience Agbabi, Bernardine Evaristo and Helon Abila. - A bird’s eye view of African English Writing. Background of Patience Agbabi, Bernardine Evaristo and Helon Abila. Black identities in exile. Cultures of resistance. Nation and time. Inter-racial fantasy and migration. Issues on Blackness. Hybridity. The language issue. - Session III: Caribbean Writing: a set of poems by Benjamin Zephaniah, Valery Bloom and Louise Bennette. A bird’s eye view of Caribbean English Writing. Background of Benjamin Zephaniah, Valery Bloom and Louise Bennette. Notions of a Caribbean literature and culture. The new orality. Linguistic innovation. Methodology: Participants will work on an assigned task for each session and read a set of materials during the first two weeks and then engage in an exchange with the other members and the coordinator during the second session. The coordinator will provide feedback to the whole group. Interaction among all members of the group will be encouraged.
Criticism: – Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge. – Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader. London: Routledge. – Bai, M. (1996) Women’s Voices: The Novels of Indian Women Writers, New Delhi: Prestige Books. – Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. – Chrkravarty. J. (2003) Indian Writing in English: Perspectives. New Delhi: Atlantic. – Graddol, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council. – Griffiths (2002) African Literatures in English. USA: Indiana University Press. – Kachru, B. (1992) The Other Tongue. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. – Killian, D. (2000) The Companion to African Literatures. USA: Indiana University Press. – Kumar, G. (2001) Indian English Literature: a New Perspective. New Delhi: Sarup. – Kundu, R. (ed) (2003) Indian Writing in English. Vol II. New Delhi: Atlantic. – Ray, M. (ed) (2003) Indian Writing in English. Vol I. New Delhi: Atlantic.
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