Teaching Caribbean Poetry

Author : Beverley Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136180826
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Caribbean Poetry written by Beverley Bryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues. Written by literary experts with extensive classroom experience, this lively and accessible book is immersed in classroom practice, and examines: • popular aspects of Caribbean poetry, such as performance poetry; • different forms of Caribbean language; • the relationship between music and poetry; • new voices, as well as well-known and distinguished poets, including John Agard (winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, 2012), Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior and Derek Walcott; • the crucial themes within Caribbean poetry such as inequality, injustice, racism, ‘othering’, hybridity, diaspora and migration; • the place of Caribbean poetry on the GCSE/CSEC and CAPE syllabi, covering appropriate themes, poetic forms and poets for exam purposes. Throughout this absorbing book, the authors aim to combat the widespread ‘fear’ of teaching poetry, enabling teachers to teach it with confidence and enthusiasm and helping students to experience the rewards of listening to, reading, interpreting, performing and writing Caribbean poetry.

Author : Supriya M. Nair
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 160329161X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature written by Supriya M. Nair and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recognizes that the most challenging aspect of introducing students to anglophone Caribbean literature--the sheer variety of intellectual and artistic traditions in Western and non-Western cultures that relate to it--also offers the greatest opportunities to teachers. Courses on anglophone literature in the Caribbean can consider the region's specific histories and contexts even as they explore common issues: the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and colonial education; nationalism; exile and migration; identity and hybridity; class and racial conflict; gender and sexuality; religion and ritual. This volume considers how the availability of materials shapes syllabuses and recommends print, digital, and visual resources for teaching. The essays examine a host of topics, including the following: the development of multiethnic populations in the Caribbean and the role of various creole languages in the literature oral art forms, such as dub poetry and reggae music the influence of anglophone literature in the Caribbean on literary movements outside it, such as the Harlem Renaissance and black British writing Carnival religious rituals and beliefs specific genres such as slave narratives and autobiography film and drama the economics of rum Many essays list resources for further reading, and the volume concludes with a section of additional teaching resources.

Author : David Dabydeen
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Teaching Caribbean Literature written by David Dabydeen and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorna Down
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766407384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature written by Lorna Down and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of essays on innovative and significant approaches to pedagogy of Caribbean literature by three generations of Caribbean teacher-writers.

Author : John Agard
Publisher : Walker
ISBN 13 : 9781406334593
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Caribbean Dozen written by John Agard and published by Walker. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mangoes and jelly coconut, garter snakes and speckled frogs. These are some of the many vivid memories of a Caribbean childhood from poets such as Valerie Bloom, Faustin Charles, Telcine Turner and Dionne Brand.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766407391
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of essays on innovative and significant approaches to pedagogy of Caribbean literature by three generations of Caribbean teacher-writers.

Author : Ian McDonald
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435988173
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry written by Ian McDonald and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is an invaluable academic selection and will provide a fine introduction for the general reader interested in the lyricism of Caribbean poetry.

Author : Cathy Sunshine
Publisher : Teaching for Change
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Connections written by Cathy Sunshine and published by Teaching for Change. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product Description: Caribbean Connections: Moving North introduces students to Caribbean life in the United States through oral histories, literature and essays. Moving North features the work of noted authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Paule Marshall, Julia Alvarez and others who trace their roots to Puerto Rico, the English speaking West Indies, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Haiti. Part of a highly acclaimed series on the cultures of the Caribbean.

Author : Emily O'Dell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793607168
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts written by Emily O'Dell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts explores alternative approaches to Caribbean texts from transnational and multilingual perspectives. The authors query what new systems and criteria can be implemented to rethink and remodel our theoretical and pedagogical corpus and alter the lenses through which we study Caribbean texts. Pulling from the Caribbean’s global diaspora, the authors examine writers such as Roxane Gay, Esmeralda Santiago, Wilson Harris, and Gloria Anzaldúa in order to resituate the place of Caribbean texts in the classroom. Each chapter argues for a reunification of Caribbean literature studies—rather than studying this body of text only in terms of a certain aspect of its history or culture, the authors necessitate the importance of analyzing these works from a pan-Caribbean perspective. This collection discusses the ideas of transcending individual disciplines and specialties to create global theories, overcoming pedagogical challenges when bringing Caribbean texts into the classroom, and (re)reading texts with the purpose of discovering new symbols, themes, and meanings.

Author : Derrilyn E. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443884146
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making History Happen written by Derrilyn E. Morrison and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making History Happen: Caribbean Poetry in America examines Lorna Goodison’s Turn Thanks (1999), McCallum’s The Water Between Us (1999), and Claudia Rankine’s Plot (2001) and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004). Engaging familiar themes and issues of time, language, and identity, the readings focus on “Signifying” moments in the works of the poets under discussion. Reflecting on some of the ways that transnational women poets of the black diaspora are using tropes of mobility to create a renewed sense of identity and a sense of belonging to a communal network, the readings also demonstrate that the project of re-writing individual self-identity in light of one’s expanding consciousness or awareness of the “other” is more urgent, and more demandingly realistic, in contemporary poetry written by women poets who occupy transnational spaces. In these works, re-memory becomes a process that transforms, the gathering of memory reflecting the interrelatedness of communal and individual subjective identities. Rankine’s poetry collections are used to close the discourse in this book, for the call they make. An intriguing crossing of genres, their structural use of time and space reflects the stylistic inventiveness that has become a hallmark of transnational poets of the black diaspora. In its transformation of language, and of images that remain open-ended in their meanings, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely fuses poetry, dialogue, and prose with images from television and other forms of communication media to create a poetic collection that is relentless in its confrontation with the way we make cultural meanings. The collection of essays in this book calls attention to an emerging poetic body of Caribbean writing in America that requires naming, for it is new.