We finally come to our last short story in the course… You’re going to miss it all, you’ll see!
The first step to take here is to consult one or two sites about Bernard Malamud, the author of “The magic barrel”:
- American Literature on the Web;
- The Unofficial Bernard Malamud Homepage;
- Encyclopedia Britannica [...]
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Posted in Short Stories, Tasks on June 24, 2008 | 27 Comments »
The short story we are going to discuss today is a short story, of course, but it is also a chapter of a novel, Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, a Chinese-American writer from California.
There are some sites you can consult to learn more about this author:
- Voices;
- Maxine [...]
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Posted in Announcements on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi everybody!
I will try to post the two final activities today, so you will have the whole content of the blog almost one week in advance, Ok?
Also, I have decided to postpone closing the blog – instead of closing it on June 30th, I will leave it open until July 1st. If you [...]
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Posted in Short Stories, Tasks on June 20, 2008 | 25 Comments »
All right, before anyone thinks he/she or his/her computer is going nuts, I’m already telling you that this post was supposed to be published on Monday only – but I’m in a hurry to wrap things up around here so I can stop worrying about the blog, Ok? You don’t have to comment [...]
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Posted in Short Stories, Tasks on June 18, 2008 | 24 Comments »
In relation to Sandra Cisneros’ “Bien Pretty”, your first step must be to learn about Spanglish, the language that is a mixture of Spanish and English. You can read a bit about it – and even listen to some examples – here.
You can also visit the author’s official website, by clicking here.
Cisneros’ most [...]
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Posted in Short Stories, Tasks on June 18, 2008 | 35 Comments »
Before we even start talking about Rudolfo Anaya or Sandra Cisneros, you need an introduction to Chicano culture and literature. If you follow the link I posted here, you will be able to download a lecture I once gave about it: introducao-historia-cultura-e-literatura-chicanas
Next, you can read some information about the author if you click here [...]
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Posted in Short Stories, Tasks on June 16, 2008 | 28 Comments »
Today we cross the Atlantic definitively. From now up to the end of the course, all the authors we are going to study are from the United States.
But… as is stated in the title of this unit, we are studying “other voices”. That means the authors we are going to discuss from today on are [...]
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Posted in Announcements on June 12, 2008 | 30 Comments »
I believe the name of Nadine Gordimer must be familiar to you – am I right? Not only because she is a Nobel Prize winner and one of the most celebrated contemporary writers of the English language, but also because she was in Paraty last year for FLIP…
You can read a bit [...]
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Posted in Announcements on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi everybody!
I’m not sure I told you, but my Internet at home is definitively off. I have been saving the posts to read calmly when I’m offline, which means I don’t have any access to your identities if you use a nickname. This doesn’t mean you should stop using them – please don’t, the whole [...]
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Posted in Short Stories, Tasks on June 11, 2008 | 27 Comments »
The author of the short story we are going to discuss today is Ruth Prawer Jhabavala, an Anglo-Indian writer who made a sucessful career as a screenwriter – she even won 2 Academy Awards for adaptations of E.M. Forster’s novels! If you are curious and would like to know more about her, click here or [...]
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