COD 2007 - G406
Reading Groups on Contemporary Literature: New Writing 14
IGCSE, literature and language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about diverse cultures in English.
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sessions, start: 14-Apr
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2007
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
ESSARP Schools
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Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
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Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 14 April 2007 | 10:00 am | 12:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Florencia Perduca
IGCSE, literature and language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about diverse cultures in English.
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring the "New Literatures" in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students' awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
A set of short stories from New Writing 14 with particular focus on displacement, otherness and identity.
- Romesh Gunesekera's "Independence".
- Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's "Narayani's Journey".
- Presentation and discussion of how to approach "the New Literatures".
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
- Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Greenlaw, L. & Habila, h. (2006) New Writing 14, London: Granta Book.