COD 2021 - D486
Webinar - Their Eyes were watching God, by Zola Neale Hurston: Reading the Black American female novel within the Black Renaissance Literary Movement and the construction of the concept of the “new negro”
IGCSE Teachers, and Literature lovers
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sesiones, inicia: 19-Abr
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Ficha del curso
Ciclo: 2021
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Ms. Patricia Veronica Green
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Sesiones
| Sesiones | Fechas | Inicia | Termina |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 Abril 2021 | 05:30 pm | 07:00 pm |
Capacitador/es
Patricia Veronica Green
IGCSE Teachers, and Literature lovers
-To introduce Hurston’s novel within the context of sweeping social, cultural and political changes and its relation to the author’s biographic, academic and social background in its contribution to the shaping of the black American female heroine within the Modern literary movement in 20th C America.
- To examine the relevance of the Harlem Renaissance—a cultural, social and artistic migration and its influence in the novel’s employment of space as a device for migration towards the construction of self.
-To encourage teachers of IGCSE Literature to appropriate the format of context driven study of the novel, so as to intellectually furnish strategies of analysis and interpretation.
-To present teachers with alternative and varied study guidelines that ensure a thorough examination and exploration of theoretical framework and literary potential of the text.
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- To examine the relevance of the Harlem Renaissance—a cultural, social and artistic migration and its influence in the novel’s employment of space as a device for migration towards the construction of self.
-To encourage teachers of IGCSE Literature to appropriate the format of context driven study of the novel, so as to intellectually furnish strategies of analysis and interpretation.
-To present teachers with alternative and varied study guidelines that ensure a thorough examination and exploration of theoretical framework and literary potential of the text.
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-Presentation of the historical, social and economic context of xx c America’s rural south within the context of The Black Renaissance Movement and the rebirth of African American art.
- An introduction to the main ideas underlying the Black Harlem Renaissance movement forging the main ideas related to shaping of black identity, the construction of self and the inscription of black culture and politics.
- The influence of Harlem Renaissance in the novel: the importance of the major cultural moment in her writing to communicate her experience of the world regarding the role of women, as agents of transformation and subversion of the restrictive patriarchal power and gender politics in the South.
- Zola Neale Hurston: conflict between the Marxist approach to the movement through Langston Hughes's ideas regarding the works’ fidelity to the negro experience and aesthetics, and the rejection of white literary stereotypes and styles, and the author’s own stylistic approach and voice as an act of resistance to employ art as propaganda.
- The novel as the representation of the exploration of black southern heritage folklorist as the basis for her extensive study of southern black life in her 1937 novel, and the complex class and gender relations which underscored the rural south.
- An introduction to the main ideas underlying the Black Harlem Renaissance movement forging the main ideas related to shaping of black identity, the construction of self and the inscription of black culture and politics.
- The influence of Harlem Renaissance in the novel: the importance of the major cultural moment in her writing to communicate her experience of the world regarding the role of women, as agents of transformation and subversion of the restrictive patriarchal power and gender politics in the South.
- Zola Neale Hurston: conflict between the Marxist approach to the movement through Langston Hughes's ideas regarding the works’ fidelity to the negro experience and aesthetics, and the rejection of white literary stereotypes and styles, and the author’s own stylistic approach and voice as an act of resistance to employ art as propaganda.
- The novel as the representation of the exploration of black southern heritage folklorist as the basis for her extensive study of southern black life in her 1937 novel, and the complex class and gender relations which underscored the rural south.
- Introduction to the novel’s context of production and reception. Historical review.
- Introduction to main philosophical ideas that stem from the antagonistic positions regards the relations between man, the institutions and society.
- Study of the literary concepts that shape the genre’s development associated with the construction and function of the African American heroine.
- A textual approach to the novel that integrates on the one hand, an analysis of the relevance of space in relation to plot elements such as setting and character, together with an examination of the thematics of cultural inheritance and the pressure of black American heritage and folklore on the development of plo..
-A critical and practical approach to the novel focused on the identification, appreciation and interpretation of the author’s stylistic force and generic innovation in order to foster critical writing strategies oriented towards the typical format of IGCSE text-based and general questions.
-Study guide: participants will be asked to present examples from the text and in- text quotations, from relevant passages in order to fulfill the objectives of the session and to encourage personal response and critical thinking strategies.
- Toward the last part of the session, the facilitator will open a space for exchange of ideas, in order to encourage participants to reflect about the importance of the thematics of context and its application in the study of the novel.
- Introduction to main philosophical ideas that stem from the antagonistic positions regards the relations between man, the institutions and society.
- Study of the literary concepts that shape the genre’s development associated with the construction and function of the African American heroine.
- A textual approach to the novel that integrates on the one hand, an analysis of the relevance of space in relation to plot elements such as setting and character, together with an examination of the thematics of cultural inheritance and the pressure of black American heritage and folklore on the development of plo..
-A critical and practical approach to the novel focused on the identification, appreciation and interpretation of the author’s stylistic force and generic innovation in order to foster critical writing strategies oriented towards the typical format of IGCSE text-based and general questions.
-Study guide: participants will be asked to present examples from the text and in- text quotations, from relevant passages in order to fulfill the objectives of the session and to encourage personal response and critical thinking strategies.
- Toward the last part of the session, the facilitator will open a space for exchange of ideas, in order to encourage participants to reflect about the importance of the thematics of context and its application in the study of the novel.
Carby, Hazel V. “The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston.” Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook. Ed. by Cheryl A. Walls. New York: Oxford Press, 2000. 117-136. Print.
Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper, 1990.
Wigley, Mark. “Untitled: The Housing of Gender.” Sexuality and Space. Ed. Beatriz Colomina. New York: Princeton Architectural P, 1992. 327-89.
Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper, 1990.
Wigley, Mark. “Untitled: The Housing of Gender.” Sexuality and Space. Ed. Beatriz Colomina. New York: Princeton Architectural P, 1992. 327-89.