Sumários

zoom class: Refugee poetry; dialogue about evaluation so far; final exam instructions

6 Maio 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Refugee poetry: suggestions by teacher (David Gewanter, Carolyn Forché) and students:

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.com/2020/05/last-homework-may-refugee-poetry.html
Dialogue about evaluation so far and feedback of class activities.

Final exam: June 5, 9:30 a. m. Duration: 2 hours + 30 min tolerance. Questions will be published in the platform and sent via email. Teacher will answer doubts about the exam questions at noon in the class's zoom address: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/179771395?pwd=UjlKa09sVVIwcFdBK2xwdm9JMytHQT09
Contents: Part I: short questions about texts read in class and subject's themes (choose 3 of 5); Part II: text analysis; Part III: intertextual relations.


distance learning activity: Film "Los Silencios" by Beatriz Seigner (2019)

4 Maio 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Students were sent a copy of the film which they watched at home. There was a previous discussion on Hemispheric American Studies / Inter-American Studies.

zoom class: The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - intertexts and parallel readings

29 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Intertextual relations of The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao with canonical works of English literature: The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; The Sound and the Fury by  William Faulkner; "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway.

Time off for autonomous work completing final papers.

zoom class: Peer revision of final project drafts

27 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

In separate zoom rooms, students read and gave feedback of each others' drafts of final projects, according to the check list provided in the moodle platform.

Discussion and final remarks about the activity and the projects.

zoom-class: Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (cont.)

22 Abril 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Metafiction,  magical realism and "genre" realism in Junot Diaz's  The Biref Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.com/2020/04/junot-diaz-and-metafiction.html
Analysis of selected excerpts. Different styles of narrators and layers of narration.See also powerpoint in e-learning platform.