COD 2009 - G489

Reading Group on Contemporary Literature: "Reading Indian Writers in English"

Language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about diverse cultures in English.

1 sessions, start: 08-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 55.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 August 2009 10:00 am 12:30 pm

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.
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 by Indian writers:
- R.K. Narayan's "Under the Banyan Tree" from Under The Banyan Tree.
- Ambai's "A Kitchen" from A Purple Sea.
- Urmila Pawar's "Justice" from Separate Journeys.
- Presentation and discussion of how to approach "Literatures in Englishes".
- 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.
- Ambai, A. (1992) A Purple Sea, Madras: East West Wood.
- 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.
- Darmarahan, G. (1998) Separate Journeys, Calcutta: Grutman Private Limited.
- Narayan, R. K. (1987) Under the Banyan Tree. London: Penguin.
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