COD 2012 - G645

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfasts: "Reading Africa through men's voices"

IGCSE literature and language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about women in diverse cultures in English.

1 sessions, start: 14-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 100.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 April 2012 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.
IGCSE literature and language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about women in 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 participants' awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To delve into the concepts of Africanness.
A set of short stories by African male writers in the Anthology The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories.

- Mia Couto's "The Birds of God" (South Africa)
- Lindiwe Mabuza's "Wake…" (South Africa)
- Jamal Mahjoub's "Road Block" (Northern Africa, Sudan)
- Saida Hagi-Dirie Herzi's' "Government by Magic Spell" (East Africa, Somalia)
- Adewale Maja-Pearce's "The Hotel" (West Africa, Nigeria)
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach "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 reflection on how they mean.
- Achebe, C. & Inness, C. L. (1992) The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories. UK: Heinemann.
- 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.
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