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Malcolm X and Claudia Rankine - the minorities' response to hatred. Toni Morrison, "Recitatif."

12 Abril 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Malcolm X and Claudia Rankine - the minorities' response to hatred.
http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/04/claudia-rankine-in-citizen-2014.htmlIntr.
Toni Morrison: "Recitatif." Repetition and the flaws of memory.
Mythic appropriation and magical realism.
http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/04/toni-morrison-on-writing-about-race.html

Malcolm X, "The ballot or The bullet."

7 Abril 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Malcolm X: biography, "The Ballot or The Bullet." Deictic markers and rhetoric devices 

Sylvia Plath (cont.) Instruções sobre exercício final. The racial question in the US: 100 Years of Oppression since the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.

5 Abril 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Sylvia Plath, "Ariel".
Instruções sobre exercício final:
http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/04/how-to-write-comparative-essay-in.html
Questão racial nos EUA
http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/04/african-american-affirmation-in-us.html

Confessional poetry: expression of the I and the visual arts; Intr. to Sylvia Plath: poem "Daddy". Free writing exercise. Debate/Role-play: Beats vs. Confessionals

31 Março 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Confessional poetry: expression of the I and the visual arts (heritage of Imagism); identity problems (gender, family) vs. social representation of the Beats's I and their relation to rhythm and music. Cf.: http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/03/glossary-of-literary-movements.html
Intr. to Sylvia Plath: the brilliant student, suicidal tendencies, relation with Ted Hughes: http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2014/11/ted-hughess-letter-to-sylvia-plath.html
poem "Daddy". http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/03/sylvia-plath-reads-daddy.html
Free writing exercise: http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/03/non-stop-writing-during-5-10-15-or-20.html#comment-form
Debate/Role-play: Beats vs. Confessionals

Delivery and correction of the first written exercises. Conclusion of the analysis of the poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg.

29 Março 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Delivery and correction of the first written exercises:
http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/03/literary-text-analysis-of-excerpt-from.html
Conclusion of the analysis of the poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg: integration of the four parts and closer analysis of the second one:
http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2014/02/allen-ginsberg-reading-howl-and-other.html