COD 2011 - G607

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Reading Asian American identities through women's voices

IGCSE, literature and language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about women in diverse cultures in English.

1 sesiones, inicia: 06-Ago

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Ciclo: 2011
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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1 06 Agosto 2011 10:00 am 12:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Education Management and 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 Literature and IB English Language and Literature. She is the Overall Head of English Department at Tarbut School.
IGCSE, literature and language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in reading about women in diverse
cultures in English.

- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring the "New 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 "displacement", "dislocation" and "diaspora" as well as "travelling cultures" and identities.
A set of short stories by Maxine Hong Kingston:
- "No Name Woman".
- "White Tigers".
Participants are expected to read the short stories at home. Literary analysis of the text will be carried out through debate and group discussions.
- 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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