Presentation on Post-Colonial authors

2. WHAT TO DO, NOW?

3. LESSON PLAN

4. ASSESSMENT

5. A CANON WITHIN THE CANON

"EXPAND THE OPENING LESSON ON POST-COLONIAL AUTHORS WITHIN THE LITERARY SALON"

1. WHERE WERE WE?

1. where were we?

LAST ACTIVITY: analysis and comment on the figure, meaning and function of Caliban in The Tempest identity and language

"You taught me language; and my profit on't/Is, I know how to curse./The red plague rid you/For learning me your language!"

2. WHAT TO DO , NOW?

"KEEP IT SIMPLE!"Prof. Grazzi

• Huge theme (2 hours?)
• Many different contexts
• Indian, Caribbean, Australian, African?
• Which authors? Which novels?
• Not university, but high school
• Literary aspects or critical thinking?
• Why on Indian authors?
• Inclusion
• Canon

3. LESSON PLAN

KEY CONCEPT: avoid (whenever possible) traditional lessons with the teacher's explanation as the focus.

• ACTIVITY 1: the teacher gives a definition of PCL + brainstorming which literatures fall within it (30 min.)
• ACTIVITY 2: The teacher divides the class in groups; each group presents one of the PCL cooperative learning on national history, themes, main authors, main books (1,5 hour + presentation)
• ACTIVITY 3: re-writing of the literary English Canon? brainstorming (30 min.)
• ACTIVITY 3: prepare a literary world itinerary with GoogleEarth (30 min.)

4. ASSESSMENT

• On-going assessment + observation of the whole learning process.
• Key European competences for active citizenship (2018): multilingual c., digital competence; personal, social and learning to learn c.; civic c.; entrepreneurship c.
• Companion volume: production, interaction, reception.

5. A CANON WITHIN THE CANON

A Guide 101 to Post-Colonial Literature

"Orientalism", Edward Said (1978)"The Empire Writes Back" (1989)

• "Things Fall Apart", Chinua Achebe
• "The God of Small Things", Arundhaty Roy
• "Midnight's Children", Salman Rushdie
• "Half of a Yellow Sun", Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
• "Wide Sargasso Sea", Jean Rhys
• "In the Castle of my Skin", George Lamming
• "The Inheritance of Loss", Kiran Desai
• "Waiting for the Barbarians", J. M. Coetzee
• "Burger’s Daughter", Nadine Gordimer
• "A House for Mr Biswas", V. S. Naipaul
• "Collected Poems", Derek Walcott

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