COD 2015 - G784

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: African American Voices

All lovers of reading Literature

1 sessions, start: 14-Nov

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 November 2015 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 reading Literature
We are going to start a journey to the African American world through its literature and (re)discover the impact of the institution of slavery as experienced by the blacks. Our focus will be on ethnicity and language both as construction of cultural identity and as a means of oppression. Through the reading of these texts we will delve into worlds that are hybrid, marginal and ethnically marked.
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 African American situation after the abolition of slavery.
A selection of poems, songs and short stories:
- Song Strange Fruit
- “Recitatif” Short story by Toni Morrison
- “Dry September” Short story by William Faulkner
- A Seleccion of poems by Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes & Gwendolyn Brooks
*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.
Pope, Rob. (1998) The English Studies Book. London & New York: Routledge.
Beacon, Griselda. (2004) “African-Americans and Racial Prejudice in the USA.” En
Reflexiones sobre cultura estadounidense. Eds. Rolando Costa Picazo y Armando
Capalbo. Buenos Aires: BMPress, 153-158.
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