COD 2015 - S468

Multiple perspectives to approach The Tempest (IGCSE Set Text 2015)

IGCSE, Literature and Language teachers interested in an alternative reading of Shakespeare

1 sesiones, inicia: 18-May

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Ciclo: 2015
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Ailen Geraghty
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1 18 Mayo 2015 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Ailen Geraghty

Ailen Geraghty is a graduate English teacher from I.E.S Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, where she has done her specialisation in the Literature Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism". She is currently doing her Master in Foreign Language Literatures and Comparative Literatures in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA. She has worked in the teaching of English at primary and secondary school levels.
IGCSE, Literature and Language teachers interested in an alternative reading of Shakespeare
- To propose a postmodern/feminist reading of the play and demonstrate how this can be relevant to teenagers.
- To revise the play and interpret it as a microcosmic world in which people who are marked as other by virtue of their gender, race, sexuality or class, are obliged to negotiate with the dominant culture.
- To analyse the play in terms of cultural power and the antagonistic polarisations it presents (male/female, black/white, politics/aesthetics).
- Introduction to Postmodern, Postcolonial and Feminist Criticism (applied to Literature).
- Implications of a Postmodern/Postcolonial and Feminist reading of Shakespeare and its relevance in class.
- Historical context of the play.
- Oppression and gender issues in the play.
- The concept of Orientalism.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach an alternative reading of Shakespeare.
2) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
3) Reading of key extracts in the play and reflection on how they mean.
4) Discussion on how to bring to the class the theory analysed in the course.
- Ashcroft, B. (2001) On Post-colonial Futures. Writing Past Colonialism. London & New York: Continuum.
- Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. & Tiffin, H. (eds.) (1995) The Post-colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge.
- Chedgzoy, K. (1995) Shakespeare's Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture. New York: Manchester University Press.
- Loomba, A. (2002) Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism, New York: O.U.P.: Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 22-74), chapter 4 (pp. 91-111)
- Loomba, A. (1998) Colonialism / Postcolonialism. London & New York: Routledge.
- Said, E. W. (1985) Orientalism. Penguin: Harmondsworth.
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