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literature and film course

SOME BRAVE WOMEN: WRITING WORKSHOP-COURSE OF WOMEN

DESCRIPTION:
This course is an interactive workshop that combines content on women's literature in English, both classic and current techniques of creative writing, covering various genres (poetry, fiction and essays, mostly).

DURATION: 31 hours

OBJECTIVES:
- Meet some of the most significant writers of the English language in Spain and Latin America through its texts and biographies, context and challenges as women faced to write and be recognized as authors.
- Meet women's writing, its history and its ongoing thematic and formal and silencing and historical discrimination that has been subjected by the dominant culture.
- Develop skills to start or continue a writing process that facilitates personal quest for ways of artistic expression.
- Introduce basic techniques of poetry, fiction and essays, based on examples from the works of women writers studied.
- Promote self-esteem of women through creativity.

RECEIVERS:
Women of any age and cultural level. METHODOLOGY


Alternating theoretical notions (authors, texts, literary theory), in digital and printed, using techniques that encourage writing (games, exercises in animation writing, reflection and discussion, group dynamics, viewing movies, etc..).


CONTENTS Item 1. Milestones of international feminism. Mary Wolstonecraft to the present. Workshop: From the window.
Item 2. Feminist Criticism: Virginia Woolf, Ellen Showalter, Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubard. Workshop: What is the women's literature? Debate.
Item 3. Women's Literature and Life. Film: The Hours. Reflection: different ways of telling a story.
Item 4. Brief history of women's writing. Historical overview of its precursor. Workshop: Time, space, point of view.
Item 5. Word of women in English. From jarchas until the late nineteenth century. Workshop: Remembering our ancestors. Description (I).
Item 6. The grandmothers of the literature. Writers nineteenth Gertruidis Gómez de Avellaneda. Workshop: Remembering our grandmothers. Description (II)
Item 7. The Second Republic and the awakening of feminism: Carmen de Burgos. Mary Lejárraga, contradiction between a woman and a feminist. Workshop: The Autobiography.
Item 8. The Civil War: Llum Quiñonero. Women who have lost peace. Workshop: The interview as a literary device. Dialogue.
Item 9. The unjustly forgotten: Carmen Conde. Workshop: Poetry (I): feelings and poetic expression. Metaphors.
Item 10. The mothers of literature in the Franco I. Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite. Realism of the war. Workshop: Storytelling (I).
Item 11. The mothers of literature in the Franco II. Gloria Fuertes, wife of verse in his chest. Workshop: Poetry (II). Reciting poetry.
Item 12. Daughters in the English Transition: Ours is writing. Rosa Montero, Marina Mayoral. Workshop: Narrative (II).
Item 13. Hispanic sisters I. The magic realism of Isabel Allende Workshop: Narration (III).
Item 14: The English-American sisters II. The kitchen and literature. Movie: Like Water for Chocolate.
Item 15. Hispanic sisters II. Gioconda Belli. Workshop: Poetry (III). The verse and the body released.
Item 16. Granddaughters: The new woman. Young Writers: Lucía Etxebarria. Debate: final conclusions and farewell of the course.

RESOURCES:
classrooms equipped with overhead projectors and the possibility of removal of furniture for the group dynamics.
Photocopies of the course material.
notebooks for students.