COD 2018 - G944

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Native Americans: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Lullaby" (1981), Sherman Alexis' "Indian Education" (1993) and Without Reservations: The Cartoons of Ricardo Cate (2012)

English Teachers and Literature Readers

1 sesiones, inicia: 04-Ago

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Ciclo: 2018
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Martha Patricia De Cunto
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 04 Agosto 2018 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Capacitador/es

Martha Patricia De Cunto

She holds a Master of Arts in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK and is currently doing a PhD in Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at UNR. She has been a lecturer in American Literature, Children's Literature, YAL Literature and Introduction to Literary Studies at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She has also taught Creative Writing at ISP “Joaquín V. González”. She has been a teacher of Language and Literature in several schools in Buenos Aires for more than 30 years.
English Teachers and Literature Readers
- Become acquainted with the historical and social background of the short stories and the cartoons.
- Become acquainted with Native American Literature.
- Discuss characters, characterization, the use of time, symbols and intertextual references
- Explore the style of Ricardo Cate's drawings and the effect on the reading process.
- Discuss main themes and the use of stylistic devices for the creation of meaning in the cartoons and the stories.
- Explore key passages through close reading.
- Discuss the similarities and differences between the three texts
1) Dismantling stereotypes, Manipulation, Whites versus Natives, Relationship to Nature, Handling Memories
2) Natives: Past and Present
3) Massacres, Broken Treaties, Government Usurpation of Tribal Lands
4) Navajos and Spokanes. Indian Reservations. Panpsychism. Myths of Origin. Hozho. Rites
5) Journal writing. Cartoon writing. The Use of Humor
The facilitator will present the main topics. Participants will work on extracts to explore key moments in the short stories and the cartoon book, apply some theoretical concepts and discuss meaning through close analysis of language and pictures.
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- Duncan, R and Smith, M. (2009) The Power of Comics. History, Form, and Culture. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.

- Fixido, D. (2006) Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group

- Owings, A. (2011) Indian voices: Listening to Native Americans. Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press

- Powel, J.(2005) The First Americans Race, Evolution, and the Origin of Native Americans Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

- Raheja, M. H. (2007) Reservation, Reelism, Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press

- Saraceni, M. (2003) The Language of Comics. London: Routledge

- Stevens. L. (2004) The Poor Indians. British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
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