COD 2017 - S593

Americanah: Writing about race after postcolonialism (A level 2017-2018)

A level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general

1 sessions, start: 29-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 29 June 2017 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.
A level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general
- To introduce the context of production.

- To provide A level literature teachers and literature teachers in general with useful tools for the analysis of a text that reflects upon racism, migration, fashion and feminism in the XXI century.

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

- To reflect upon the importance of cultural awareness.
- Migration and return: unbelonging.

- Identity and the significance of race in the USA, the UK and Nigeria

- American blacks, non-American blacks, Hispanics, and several shades of others.

- Writing Raw and True: the nature of blogging and the prose of the novel

- Hair and Fashion: when the personal is political
- 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’ analysis and production for A level Literature examinations, including close reading techniques, thinking routines and games, among others.
- AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Americanah. London, Fourth State, 2014.
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Half of a Yellow Sun. New York, Random House Inc. 2006.
- Arabian, Soheila, Journey and Return: Visiting Unbelonging and Otherness in Adichie’s Americanah. Journal UMP Social Sciences and Technology Management, Vol. 3, Issue 3, Supp. 1, 2015.
- Guarracino, Serena, Writing “so raw and true”: Blogging in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Between, Volume IV, n°8, November 2014.
- Khedekar, Amol D., The Politics of Hair in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Global Journey of Multidisciplinary Studies, volume 3, issue 12, November 2014.
- Najmh, Sajna, Unmasking Racism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Indian Journal of Applied Research, volume 4, issue 11, November 2014.
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