COD 2014 - G736

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Voices from the Caribbean

All lovers of literature.

1 sessions, start: 04-Oct

Course detail

Year: 2014
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
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ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 150.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 04 October 2014 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in ELT. Her interests include literature, young learners, CLIL, creativity and critical interculturality. Passionate about art in education, Griselda carries out projects with literature, storytelling, drama, visual arts and creative writing to foster self-expression and creativity in diverse and inclusive English language classrooms. She holds an MA in Literature and Foreign Language Teaching from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has been working in the field of teacher education and Primary curriculum development for over 20 years. She has been sharing her experience as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer in Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia. She is a co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2018), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the book International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021). Griselda has taught Children’s & Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques in the English Class and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. She regularly works as a consultant for educational institutions, such as language schools (NILE - Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK, ELT publishers (Oxford University Press) & libraries. At present, she lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA. In her spare time, Griselda loves dancing, getting lost in bookstores and taking drama classes.
All lovers of literature.
We are going to start a journey to the Caribbean through its literature and (re)discover the impact of British Imperialism as experienced by the "colonized". Our focus will be on language both as a means of communication as well as a means of oppression. As Bill Ashcroft points out: "One of the main features of imperial oppression is control over language. [...] Language becomes the medium through which a hierarchical structure of power is perpetuated, and the medium through which conceptions of "truth", "order", and "reality" become established." (The Empire Writes Back, 22002, 7). Interestingly, English became the language of the post-colonial voice to elaborate on appropriation of language, hybridity, centre and margin, sense of belonging and cultural identity. English is the means to help the Caribbean reconstruct an identity of their own which combines their traditions, their colonial experience and their present reality.

- In this reading breakfast, we intend:
- To create a reading community of lovers of literature.
- To develop reading strategies to tackle the ambiguous nature of literary texts.
- To learn about the Caribbean situation within post-colonial contexts.
A selection of poems and short stories:
- "No Dialects Please!" & "The Lesson" by Merle Collins (poems)
- "Listen Mr Oxford Don" By John Agard (poem)
- "Out of Africa" by Grace Nichols (poem)
- "A Far Cry From Africa" Derek Walcott (poem)
- "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley (song)
- "Girl", "Blackness" & "A Small Place" (Extract) by Jamaica Kincaid (stories)
- "Brackley and the Bed" by Sam Selvon (story)
*We will include other literary texts if time allows.
Workshop. Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss the texts and the topics introduced as well as analyse the different ways in which artists express their concerns.
The selection of poems and short stories.
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. [1989] (22002) The Empire Writes Back. London & New York: Routledge.
- Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. (1995) "Nation Language" in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft et. al. London & New York: Routledge, 309-13.
- Pope, Rob. (1998) The English Studies Book. London & New York: Routledge.
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