Jamaica: A New Literacy Setting for Postcolonial Literature

What is world literature? Who determines what constitutes world literature? How do educators begin to train prospective and current teachers who are, or who will be responsible for presenting world literature in the classroom? How do educators begin to prepare these teachers to look critically and a...

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Main Author: Angela E. Rhone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles 2016-01-01
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Online Access:http://howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/231
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description What is world literature? Who determines what constitutes world literature? How do educators begin to train prospective and current teachers who are, or who will be responsible for presenting world literature in the classroom? How do educators begin to prepare these teachers to look critically and analyze the new movement in world literature, which includes literature from postcolonial countries? What does it take to create a critical pedagogy in world literature? These are some of the questions I reflected upon as I left for Jamaica, West Indies.
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title Jamaica: A New Literacy Setting for Postcolonial Literature
title_full Jamaica: A New Literacy Setting for Postcolonial Literature
title_fullStr Jamaica: A New Literacy Setting for Postcolonial Literature
title_full_unstemmed Jamaica: A New Literacy Setting for Postcolonial Literature
title_short Jamaica: A New Literacy Setting for Postcolonial Literature
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