COD 2016 - S576

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: Snapshots of Indian-Americans (AS 2016-2018)

AS Literature teachers

1 sessions, start: 16-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2016
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 300.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 16 August 2016 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
AS Literature teachers
- To introduce the context of production and the relation of the novel with other texts: Russian short stories that have an intertextual link to “The Namesake” and some of Lahiri’s short stories.

- To provide AS literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of a text marked by (neo)colonialism.

- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading and interpretations of the text.

- To reflect upon the importance of cultural awareness.
- (Neo)Colonialism and migration.

- Temporality in the novel: snapshots of life

- Identity and the significance of names: Goggles, Nikhil and Gogol, Moushumi and Sonia

- Second generation: Indian-Americans?

- Intertextual references: Russian literature and references to books in the novel

- Postmodern life in conflict with a modern perspective: Nikhil and Moushumi versus Ashima and Ashoke
- Presentation and discussion of how to deal with the novel's issues.

- Participants will be presented with material to arouse students' interest and to facilitate their understanding of the novel.

- Discussion of possible ways to enhance students’ production for AS Literature examinations.
- AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk

- Bhatt, Mahesh B., Struggle to Acculturate in the Namesake: A Comment on Jhumpa Lahiri's Work as Diaspora Literature. IMDS Working Paper series. http://www.jnu.ac.in/library/IMDSWorkingPapers.htm

- Gatt, Dashrath, Re-defining Identity: A Critique of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. American International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. http://www.iasir.net ISSN (Online): 2328-3696

- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, The Cloak in Taras Bulba and Other Tales. http://www.gutenberg.com [ebook #1197], 2008.

- Karuresh, Diasporic Crisis of Dual Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research, volume 1, number 1, 2013.

- Lahiri, Jhumpa, Interpreter of Maladies. London, Flamingo, 2000.

- Lahiri, Jhumpa, The Namesake. New York, First Mariner Books edition, 2004

- Mangayarkarasi, K., Cultural Alienation and Loss of Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science. e-ISSN : 2279-0837

- Venkatesh Puttaiah , Paradoxes of Generational Breaks and Continuity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. Asiatic, volume 6, number 1, 2012.
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