COD 2022 - D762

Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: "Latin American Migrants in Englishes"

Literature teachers/fans/avid readers interested in the "border literatures" and in reading about diverse cultures in English(es)

1 sessions, start: 27-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2022
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 2200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 2200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 27 August 2022 10:00 am 11:30 am

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 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 English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
Literature teachers/fans/avid readers interested in the "border literatures" and in reading about diverse cultures in English(es)
- 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”.
A set of texts by transcultural writers inscribing Latin Americanness.
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.
- BASS, R. and Young, J. (2003) Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
-BASS. R. (1999) Border Texts. Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers. Boston &New York: Houghton Mifflin.
-CLACKY, G. (ed.). (2010) Writers on America: 15 Reflections. New York: Routledge.
-GONZALEZ, B. (2002) Latino Boom: An Anthology of US Latino Literature, Longman Pearson: New York.
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