https://www.hppr.org/post/immigration-stories-caricatures-and-stereotypes-stauth-museum
In-betweenness
Forced removal or willing migrations may result in a loss of landmarks and lead to questioning one's identity, a feeling of being trapped between two cultures, two identities. What is suggested by Gene Luen yang 's graphic novel ( American Born Chinese ) ?
Then compare and contrast the way the issue of in-betweenness is tackled in the song by Alice Merton drive.google.com/file/d/1kuYdPYF2TT-Qrts8AxsoDmr6i4hU9mVY/view?usp=sharing, the extract from A Map to the Door of No Return and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
+ see: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/this-chinese-american-cartoonist-forces-us-to-face-racist-stereotypes
Then compare and contrast the way the issue of in-betweenness is tackled in the song by Alice Merton drive.google.com/file/d/1kuYdPYF2TT-Qrts8AxsoDmr6i4hU9mVY/view?usp=sharing, the extract from A Map to the Door of No Return and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
+ see: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/this-chinese-american-cartoonist-forces-us-to-face-racist-stereotypes
Task :
Study the poem by Thomas Hardy . Then write the last letter the little drummer could have sent his family before dying.
Study the poem by Thomas Hardy . Then write the last letter the little drummer could have sent his family before dying.
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Homecoming
The poem by W.B. Yeats and the chapter from The House on Mango Street entitled the three sisters both highlight one's attachment to one's home. Find out more by studying them . Then turn to the speech by Frederick Douglass and contrast his vision of home to the two other extracts.
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Study the extracts from Angela's Ashes ( Alan Parker) , drive.google.com/file/d/1BkkognMJtSa9sbuW-sn6Eq6vXE7ZMbax/view?usp=sharing
Brooklyn, drive.google.com/file/d/16ZXKgg5XKQ3fy8R8NGzMZpfSVmPrTq2c/view?usp=sharing
and A Little failure and say how homecoming is presented. What did the immigrants coming back home expect? Which obstacles did they meet ?
Brooklyn, drive.google.com/file/d/16ZXKgg5XKQ3fy8R8NGzMZpfSVmPrTq2c/view?usp=sharing
and A Little failure and say how homecoming is presented. What did the immigrants coming back home expect? Which obstacles did they meet ?
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A stranger in your own land
- Migrant Mother (1936) by Dorothea Lange
- Describe the characters, their clothes, their position, location…
- Deduce their social status and maybe the historical period when this photo was taken.
- Find information about the Dust Bowl (or the Dirty Thirties) and the FAS (Farm Security Administration).
- Now focus on the title. Why was the woman called a “Migrant Mother”? Account for her geographical and social trajectory in life.
- Focus on the portraits drawn by the photographer: why are the children hiding their faces? What does it reveal about their emotions? Describe the face of the mother. How does she look? Find adjectives to qualify her attitude and her face expression.
- Describe the character portrayed in the photograph by Walker Evans. Pay attention to his clothes, his social status, and the emotions conveyed. Use the title to help you analyse his social background.
- Compare the framing of the two photos: what do they have in common and why did the two artists choose such a framing?
- Conclude about the artistic genre that Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans particularly developed through their photography.
- How is this feeling of estrangement ( = alienation )reflected by John Ford and John Steinbeck in the extract from The Grapes of Wrath ? drive.google.com/file/d/1YttIMpvK-rj8-_6R8n_52zWRlCVas2Du/view?usp=sharing
Alienation
Alienation , which can be defined as the feeling that you have no connection with the people around you or that you are not part of a group may stem from different reasons. Study the documents underneath to find out what these reasons can be. Then devise a leaflet to help people fight against alienation ( it should include at least 6 pieces of advice)
drive.google.com/file/d/1IqlsOcbUcsim2fHHO37jKi3icIjNmPA3/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1IqlsOcbUcsim2fHHO37jKi3icIjNmPA3/view?usp=sharing
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This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches. In this scene from the Mechant of Venice , Solanio and Salerio have been taunting Shylock about his daughter Jessica eloping, before telling him that Antonio’s ship has been lost at sea and he cannot pay his debt.
What is Shylock expressing ? How is his speech built ? Which emotion is he trying to arouse in his audience? Now watch the extract from To Be or not to Be by Ernst Lubitsh .drive.google.com/file/d/1dPrwwahHyFnKX0rADeQ1NMPAto8gNb2M/view?usp=sharing Why do you think the director decided to use this speech from a controversial play in his film? Does the monologue have the same impact on the audience ? Explain. www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/the-merchant-of-venice/language/if-you-prick-us-do-we-not-bleed |
Post-colonial literature
Definition : A category devised to replace and expand upon what was once in Britain called Commonwealth Literature. As a label, it thus covers a very wide range of writings from countries that were once colonies or dependencies of the European powers. There has been much debate about the scope of the term: should predominantly white ex-colonies like Ireland, Canada, and Australia be included? why are the United States exempted both from the accepted list of former colonies and from the category of colonizing powers? In practice, the term is applied most often to writings from Africa, the Indian sub-continent, the Caribbean, and other regions whose histories during the 20th century are marked by colonialism, anti-colonial movements, and subsequent transitions to post-Independence society. Critical attention to this large body of work in academic contexts is often influenced by a distinct school of postcolonial theory which developed in the 1980s and 1990s, under the influence of Edward W. Said's landmark study Orientalism (1978). Postcolonial theory considers vexed cultural-political questions of national and ethnic identity, ‘otherness’, race, imperialism, and language, during and after the colonial periods. It draws upon post-structuralist theories such as those of deconstruction in order to unravel the complex relations between imperial ‘centre’ and colonial ‘periphery’, often in ways that have been criticized for being excessively abstruse. The principal luminaries of postcolonial theory after Said have been Gayatri C. Spivak and Homi K. Bhabha
source : www.oxfordreference.com/
source : www.oxfordreference.com/
Study the excerpt underneath and explain why the writers are labelled as "post-colonial ". How do they deal with their heritage ?
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The Mimic Men is a novel by British-Trinidadian author V.S. Naipaul, first published in 1967. Combining elements of both fiction and nonfiction and completed while Naipaul was writer-in-residence at Uganda’s Makerere University, it is considered one of Naipaul’s most serious and poetic novels. It centers on Ranjit “Ralph” Singh, an politician of both East and West Indian origin in exile living in London as he attempts to write his memoirs. The novel flashes back to his time in power, as he struggles to balance his personal life with his political ambitions and at times, seems to abandon his goals. Exploring themes of cultural differences between Europe and the Caribbean, colonialism, love, and the politics and economics of the Caribbean, The Mimic Men received overall positive reviews, although it was controversial for its depiction of West Indians as trying to mimic European behavior.
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Synopsis : For Raman the sign painter, life is a familiar and satisfying routine. A man of simple, rational ways, he lives with his pious aunt and prides himself on his creative work. But all that changes when he meets Daisy, a thrillingly independent young woman who wishes to bring birth control to the area. Hired to create signs for her clinics, Raman finds himself smitten by a love he cannot understand, much less avoid-and soon realizes that life isn't so routine anymore. Set in R. K. Narayan's fictional city of Malgudi, The Painter of Signs is a wry, bittersweet treasure.
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