COD 2015 - G781

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2000)

Language and Literature teachers interested in exploring graphic novels and Iranian culture

1 sessions, start: 08-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 August 2015 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Martha Patricia De Cunto

She holds a Master of Arts in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK and is currently doing a PhD in Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at UNR. She has been a lecturer in American Literature, Children's Literature, YAL Literature and Introduction to Literary Studies at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She has also taught Creative Writing at ISP “Joaquín V. González”. She has been a teacher of Language and Literature in several schools in Buenos Aires for more than 30 years.
Language and Literature teachers interested in exploring graphic novels and Iranian culture
- Discuss main themes and the use of stylistic devices for the creation of meaning.
- Explore key passages through the use of close reading.
- Analyze words and pictures in the comics and the collaboration between them.
- Explore use of time and transition techniques to signal fictional present and past.
- Explore voice and point of view.
1) Characters and characterization, conflict, themes, symbols, point of view, tone, atmosphere, use of time. Historical context. Key rhetorical figures in the text.
2) Autobiography as a genre: the individual and the community, fact and fiction.
3) The use of pictures for meaning- making. Organization of the panels, drawings, transitions and gutters.
4) Women and childhood under Islam. Exile and Diaspora.
The facilitator will present the topics. Participants will be required to work on extracts to explore key moments in the novel and discuss how meaning is produced through close analysis of language.
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- Chute H. (2008) "Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative" in PMLA, Vol. 123, No. 2, pp. 452-465. Modern Language Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25501865. Accessed: 21/09/2014 14:26

- Duncan, R. and Smith, M. (2009) The Power of Comics. History, Form, and Culture. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.

- Elahi, B. (2007) "Frames and Mirrors in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis" in Vol. 15, No. 1/2, Cinema without Borders, pp. 312-325. University of Nebraska Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40550774. Accessed: 21/09/2014 14:23


- Gilmore, L. and Marshal, E. (2010) "Girls in Crisis: Rescue and Transnational Feminist Autobiographical Resistance" in Feminist Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 667-690. Feminist Studies, Inc. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27919128. Accessed: 18/02/2015 12:17Your use


- Heffernan, J. (2006) Cultivating Picturacy Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press

- Malek A. (2006) "Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production: A Case Study of Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis"Series" in Iranian Studies, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 353-380. Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of International Society for Iranian Studies. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4311834. Accessed: 21/09/2014 14:23

- Mclaughlin, Jeff (ed.) (2005) Comics as Philosophy. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

- Saraceni, M. (2003) The Language of Comics. London: Routledge
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