COD 2025 - D1094

Webinar - Crossing the Ocean for a Voice. Ideas & Resources to Teach Wide Sargasso Sea (AS&A Level 2024-2026 set text)

Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching literature, in general, and Wide Sargasso Sea, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this novel from a critical perspective

1 sessions, start: 30-Apr

Please enrol before Friday, April 25th 2025

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa PhD
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 30 April 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Cecilia Lasa

Cecilia Lasa holds a Ph. D. in Literature and a Master's Degree in Literatures in Foreign Languages and in Comparative Literatures (FFyL, UBA). She is a Teacher of English (IESLV "Juan R. Fernández") and a Teacher of Literature (FFyL, UBA). She has a Higher Diploma in Research in Humanities (UBA) and has done a Specialisation in Reading, Writing and Education (FLACSO) and in Writing and Literature (Ministerio de Educación, Argentina). She has worked as a teacher of Literature and of academic reading and writing in Teacher Training Colleges in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and national universities as well. She is currently working as a teacher and researcher in English Literature and American Literature (FFyL, UBA). She is the author of Academic Writing and has edited and co-authored Literatura y formación docente. Proyectos de lectura y de escritura.
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching literature, in general, and Wide Sargasso Sea, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this novel from a critical perspective
- To identify the main problems and challenges teachers and student may face when studying Wide Sargasso Sea
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the novel
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contributes to the main conflict(s) in Wide Sargasso Sea
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the novel, especially in relation to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle Wide Sargasso Sea in class
- Reconstruction of historical aspects related to both the setting and the context of production of the novel.
- Character construction, setting and atmosphere.
- The use of the supernatural.
- Race, class and gender in Wide Sargasso Sea
- The novel's relation to Jane Eyre.
- Recovery of attendees' main difficulties when teaching literary texts and of their previous knowledge about the novel and its author
- Discussion of aspects related to the context of production
- Introduction to Jean Rhys's narrative and the importance of this novel
- Exploration of specific features of the novel –polyphony, characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of the novel.
Source text

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea.

Critical and theoretical material

Nebeker, H. (2010). Jean Rhys: Woman in Passage Acacia Publishing.
Ciolkowski, L. E. (1997). Navigating the Wide Sargasso Sea: Colonial History, English Fiction, and British Empire. Twentieth Century Literature, 43 (3), 339–359. https://doi.org/10.2307/441916

Cambridge's Bibliography about Literature in English

Cambridge International Examinations (2018). Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Russell, C (2018). Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whitthome, E (2018). AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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