COD 2023 - D870

Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: African American Poetry: The Dream Deferred

Literature lovers

1 sesiones, inicia: 13-May

Ficha del curso

Ciclo: 2023
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Pospuesto
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 13 Mayo 2023 10:00 am 11:30 am

Capacitador/es

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda 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, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
Literature lovers
In this online reading breakfast session, we intend:
▪ To continue creating a reading community of lovers of literature.
▪ To continue developing reading strategies to tackle the ambiguous nature of literary texts.
▪ To learn about and explore the African American literary world.
An introduction to African American poetry and its transversal themes: confrontation with the WASP concept of the “American Dream”, the experience of slavery, ethnic identity and community affiliation. Our focus will be on ethnicity and language, since both can be seen as key elements to construct cultural identity or as vehicles to perpetuate oppression. We will delve into poetic worlds which are hybrid, marginal and ethnically marked.
A selection of poems,songs and speeches:
- Song Strange Fruit (1939). (author Abel Meeropol, most representative singer Billie Holiday)
- A Selection of poems by Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks & Amanda Gorman in dialogue with poems by Walt Whitman & Emma Lazarus and with Martin Luther King’s famous speech.
*We will include other literary texts if time allows
An online dialogical and interactive session in which participants will discuss the poems and the topics introduced as well as analyse the different ways in which poets express their concerns.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths G.& Tiffin, H. [1989] (2002). The Empire writes back(2da ed.). Routledge.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths G. & Tiffin, H. (1995). The Post-Colonial Studies Reader,Routledge.
Beacon, G. (2004). African-Americans and racial prejudice in the USA. En R. Costa Picazo y A.
Capalbo (Eds.), Reflexiones sobre cultura estadounidense (pp. 153-158). BMPress.
Gates Jr., H. L. (1985). “Race,” Writing, and Difference. The University of Chicago Press.
Gates, Jr., H. L. (Ed.). (1990). Reading Black, Reading Feminist. Meridian.
Pope, R. (1998). The English Studies book. Routledge.
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