Teaching Caribbean Poetry

Herausgeber: Bryan, Beverley; Styles, Morag

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories of the Caribbean underpin the poetry and relate to its interpretation; and to explore how Caribbean poetry connects with environmental issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780415640480
• ISBN-10: 0415640482
• Artikelnr.: 37041425

Autorenporträt

Beverley Bryan is Professor of Language Education at the University of the West Indies' Mona School of Education, Jamaica, and a past Head of Department and Director of the School of Education. Morag Styles is Professor of Children's Poetry at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education, and a Fellow of Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Why Caribbean poetry? 1. Poetry, Place and
Environment: the scope of Caribbean poetry 2. The Language of Caribbean
poetry 3. Poetry and Caribbean Music 4. Poetry of Oppression, Resistance
and Liberation 5. Understanding, Approaching and Teaching Derek Walcott in
Two Settings 6. The Diaspora Consciousness: identity and exile in Caribbean
British poetry 7. Contemporary Caribbean Poetry 8. Teachers' Voices 9.
Teaching Caribbean Poetry Appendix: Appendix: Further reading for Poetry of
Oppression, Resistance and Liberation