READING PROGRAM 2021_2022

 

READING PROGRAM 21_22: METAPHORS OF DISPLACEMENT

 

This reading workshop will evolve around the pervading literary topic of otherness, focusing on metaphors of displacement regarding post-colonial discourse, identity, and gender issues.

 

List of readings:

 POST-COLONIAL DISPLACEMENT

• ”You are now Entering the Human Heart” by Janet Frame (New Zealand.  Collection of the same title. 1984). Short Story
•  “The Reservoir” by Janet Frame.  1963. Short story first published in The New Yorker
•  “A windy Day,” “The Terrible Screaming,” “The Mythmaker’s Office”, “The Daylight and the Dust” by Janet Frame
• “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy, 1997. Novel
• “The Lazy River” by Zadie Smith. Short Story. New Yorker. 2017
• “On Beauty” by Zadie Smith

 GENDER AND IDENTITY DISPLACEMENT- SPECULAR REFLECTIONS in the CLASSICS

• Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley 

 RITES OF PASSAGE

•  “Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury” (1928)

•  "The Heart of the Matter" (1948) by Graham Greene

AMERICAN FRONTIER NARRATIVE

• “Go Down Moses” by William Faulkner.

 

It is customary to include always a Shakesperean piece in our reading programme, and the suggestion this academic course has been "Hamlet".  This will be analysed following the pro proposed thread: otherness.