COD 2016 - S538

"The Borders of Identity in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease" (IGCSE Set Text 2015, 2016, 2017)

IGCSE, Literature and Language teachers interested in (post) colonial African literatures and in reading about dislocated subjects and the effect on identity

1 sesiones, inicia: 25-Feb

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Ciclo: 2016
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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1 25 Febrero 2016 09:30 am 04:30 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 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 English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
IGCSE, Literature and Language teachers interested in (post) colonial African literatures and in reading about dislocated subjects and the effect on identity
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring the postcolonial 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 concept of Africanness.
- Foster a literary linguistic approach to the text.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach “postcolonial literatures in Englishes”, and particularly African texts.
2) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
3) Structural analysis of the novel working on signs of Africanness.
4) Systematic semiotic analysis.
5) Reading of key extracts in the novel and reflection on how they mean.
- ACHEBE, CH. (1980) No Longer At Ease, London: Vintage.

- 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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