COD 2016 - G834

Cultural Programme - Reading breakfast: Reading Transcultural Literatures: Delving into Auto-ethnographies

IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in ‘transcultural literatures’ and in reading about diverse cultures writing auto-ethnographies in Englishes. All Literature lovers interested in engaging in our reading/writing auto-ethnographies project

1 sessions, start: 16-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2016
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 300.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 16 April 2016 09:00 am 12:00 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 ‘transcultural literatures’ and in reading about diverse cultures writing auto-ethnographies in Englishes.
All Literature lovers interested in engaging in our reading/writing auto-ethnographies project
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring “hybrid 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 “auto-ethnogrpies”, “border writing”, “displacement”, “dislocation” and “diaspora” as well as “travelling cultures” and “dynamic identities”.
A set of auto-ethnographic texts by male/female transcultural writers.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach these texts
2) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the texts.
3) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflecting on how they mean.
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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