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Welcome to the Social Action: Resistance
Through Literature Web Guide!
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This guide can be utilized by teachers
in a variety of disciplines to complement any number of courses in
literature, political science, sociology, foreign language, or history.
One of the purposes of this guide is to assist faculty in teaching
cultural literacy, empathy, and socially critical thinking. These
capacities enable students not only to “listen” to the world around
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they encounter but also to reflect on the reading’s political
implications—and, perhaps, “talk back” through writing or engaging in
activist endeavors. In this web guide, one will find various ways literature
functions as a form of resistance and social action as well as several
pedagogical approaches to teaching literature. In the first unit, there is
a lesson plan for using Jurisprudential Inquiry to better understand
Augusto Roa Bastos’ novel, I the Supreme, and to consider problems
of power and corruption in a military dictatorship. The second unit
incorporates playwriting and drama to better understand Nawal el Saadawi’s
“In Camera” and the oppression of women as a specific phenomenon and
global trend. In the third unit, role playing is employed to understand
the impact of colonialism in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Other resources, such as interviews about resistance drama,
political poetry, and related links are also available. |
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