By Jaime Beamish
Welcome. For those who stumble across this blog, you will find many resources for future teachers in a secondary education setting. These resources were created by a college student in a secondary education program, myself. This blog centers around multicultural literature. In other words, this blog explores global literature. To define global literature means literary pieces that blur national boundaries. Literature that can be read anywhere and during any time period but still resonate with the reader through deep underlying theme’s. Each blog will explore these different themes that can be found in various literary works from around the world. Ranging from Eastern literature to Western. Literature during the 20th century was overwhelmed with various societal changes and art had begun to represent those changes. Some of those themes can still be seen today in the 21st century. Within each blog, there will also be lesson plans and material to be used for within the classroom. The blog is welcome to everyone. Students, teachers, critics… everyone is welcome!
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Literary Blog #8
“The Perforated Sheet,” by Salman Rushdie “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid Global Literature that blurs national boundaries and shines the light on cultural identities This week’s readings centered around Global Literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. The theme for this week’s readings was the pieces of work that blurred national boundaries and went in depth…
Literary Blog #7
Post-Holocaust literature and the theme of dehumanization “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” by Taduesz Borowski “The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman,” by Clarice Lispector There is an overwhelming sense of dehumanization from this week’s readings. The author uses several literary elements to emphasize that theme. The post-holocaust time period is one that…
Literary Blog #6
Latin American culture and the use of magical realism ““Death Constant Beyond Love,” by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, “And of Clay Are We Created,” by Isabel Allende This week’s readings centered around Latin American literature and focused on literary elements like the use of magical realism. The cultural theme from this week’s readings intertwined fate and the…
Literary Blog #5
The importance of national identity in African American culture “Chike’s School Days” by Chinua Achebe “Notes of a Native Son,” by James Baldwin This week’s readings explored excerpts from African American literature. The central theme of the readings was a strong sense of national identity and what it means to African American culture. The reader…
Literary Blog #4
Native American Spirituality “The Night Chant (Orature Section)” from Navajo Ceremony “Yellow Woman” by Leslie Marmon Silko The cultural theme that can be seen in this week’s readings is the importance of spirituality to Native American tribes. Spirituality was an integral part of the identity for Native American individuals. The reader can interpret from both…
Literary Blog #3
The importance of traditions in Eastern Literature “Sealed off” -Zhang Ailing 1943 “Man of La Mancha” -Chu T’Ien-Hsin 1994 This week’s theme in our readings was modernization. The readings are from the 19th and 20th century. They are influential stories for Eastern literature as they began to exude Western Literature characteristics. “Diary of a Madman”…
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