COD 2023 - D870B
Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: African American Poetry: The Dream Deferred
Literature lovers
1
sessions, start: 21-Oct
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2023
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 4500.00
ARS 4500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 4500.00
ARS 4500.00
Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 21 October 2023 | 10:00 am | 11:30 am |
Facilitator/s
Griselda Beacon
Literature lovers
In this online reading breakfast session, 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 the African American literary world.
▪ 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 the African American literary world.
An introduction to African American poetry and its transversal themes: confrontation with the WASP concept of the “American Dream”, the experience of slavery, ethnic identity and community affiliation. Our focus will be on ethnicity and language, since both can be seen as key elements to construct cultural identity or as vehicles to perpetuate oppression. We will delve into poetic worlds which are hybrid, marginal and ethnically marked.
A selection of poems,songs and speeches:
- Song Strange Fruit (1939). (author Abel Meeropol, most representative singer Billie Holiday)
- A Selection of poems by Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks & Amanda Gorman in dialogue with poems by Walt Whitman & Emma Lazarus and with Martin Luther King’s famous speech.
*We will include other literary texts if time allows
A selection of poems,songs and speeches:
- Song Strange Fruit (1939). (author Abel Meeropol, most representative singer Billie Holiday)
- A Selection of poems by Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks & Amanda Gorman in dialogue with poems by Walt Whitman & Emma Lazarus and with Martin Luther King’s famous speech.
*We will include other literary texts if time allows
An online dialogical and interactive session in which participants will discuss the poems and the topics introduced as well as analyse the different ways in which poets express their concerns.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths G.& Tiffin, H. [1989] (2002). The Empire writes back(2da ed.). Routledge.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths G. & Tiffin, H. (1995). The Post-Colonial Studies Reader,Routledge.
Beacon, G. (2004). African-Americans and racial prejudice in the USA. En R. Costa Picazo y A.
Capalbo (Eds.), Reflexiones sobre cultura estadounidense (pp. 153-158). BMPress.
Gates Jr., H. L. (1985). “Race,” Writing, and Difference. The University of Chicago Press.
Gates, Jr., H. L. (Ed.). (1990). Reading Black, Reading Feminist. Meridian.
Pope, R. (1998). The English Studies book. Routledge.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths G. & Tiffin, H. (1995). The Post-Colonial Studies Reader,Routledge.
Beacon, G. (2004). African-Americans and racial prejudice in the USA. En R. Costa Picazo y A.
Capalbo (Eds.), Reflexiones sobre cultura estadounidense (pp. 153-158). BMPress.
Gates Jr., H. L. (1985). “Race,” Writing, and Difference. The University of Chicago Press.
Gates, Jr., H. L. (Ed.). (1990). Reading Black, Reading Feminist. Meridian.
Pope, R. (1998). The English Studies book. Routledge.