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Journal articles on the topic "Children's poetry, Caribbean (English)"
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Wang, Yihan. "Analysis of the Methods for Selecting Children's English Materials." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 19, no. 1 (October 26, 2023): 215–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/19/20231441.
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As globalization continues to accelerate and international exchanges become more frequent, English has become an important medium for cross-cultural communication. Reading is an integral part of English learning, especially for children. By reading English materials, they can get access to a rich vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure, which helps to improve their expressive skills. In order to expand children's knowledge, understand the differences between different countries and cultures and develop their open-mindedness and global awareness, this paper aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the selection of children's English materials, using the literature research method to analyse the principles of children's English materials. Firstly, the characteristics of children's English reading are analyzed, and it is found that children have a limited vocabulary, a high reliance on visual elements and different reading levels in English reading. Secondly, the paper classifies children's English materials into 3 genres such as picture books, novels and children's poetry, and summaries the characteristics of the corresponding genres. Finally, a detailed analysis of the principles of material selection for children's English materials is made using relevant literature, and four principles of material selection for children's English materials are proposed: the principle of moderate difficulty, the principle of attractiveness, the principle of diversity and the principle of cultural relevance.
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Gan, Lu, Han Wang, Haoyue Liu, Xinyu Li, and Yi Hu. "The Study on Localization of Bronze and Sunflower." English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies 6, no. 2 (May 1, 2024): p259. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/eltls.v6n2p259.
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Cao Wenxuan's works are a typical representative of "going out" in Chinese children's literature. In April 2016, Cao Wenxuan won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest award for children's literature in the world. This achievement is closely related to the translator's translation ability. This paper takes the English translation of Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan (translator Helen Wang) as the research object, and aims to explore the translation strategies suitable for the localization of Bronze and Sunflower, which can be divided into three aspects:landscape description,folk poetry,eastern sensibility.This paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of the English translation of Bronze and Sunflower, and provides a new perspective and possibility for the English translation of Chinese children's literature.
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Pidopryhora, Svitlana, and Victoria Kysil. "POETRY AND FICTION BY MYKOLA VINGRANOVSKYJ IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Literary Studies. Linguistics. Folklore Studies, no. 32 (2022): 58–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2659.2022.32.11.
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The article examines the poetry and fiction by Mykola Vingranovskyj in English translations. Attention is paid to the chronological sequence of translations, the figures of translators and the works selected for translation, their equivalence to the original. The first translation of M. Vingranovskyj's fiction (the short story "White Flowers") appeared with the assistance of Yu. Lutsky in Canada and aimed at popularizing Ukrainian literature among students. The short story opens the extremely lyrical world of Mykola Vingranovskyj, where the story revolves not around the event, but around the feelings, which brings the short story closer to poetry. The novella was included to the anthology (Modern Ukrainian Short Stories, 1973) as the example of the prose of the sixties (shistdesyatnyky), which departed from socialist-realist ideological canons and turned to the emotional and expressive potential of artistic language. The translation of Yuri and Moira Lutsky is marked by the desire to convey as fully as possible the author's individual style, including figurative metaphor, to create a text equivalent to the original in communicative orientation. The collection Summer Evening (1987), translated by Anatoliy Bilenko, was published after M. Vingranovskyj was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1984). The collection includes stories for children's audiences, conveying children's perception of the world: Chest, Shaggi, The Gosling, Good Night, What Makes the World Spin, Summer Evening. A. Bilenko's translations are notable for the adequacy of the reproduction of artistic and stylistic features of the original, semantic equivalence. Some translated poems, which emphasize the civic component (Sistine Madonna, To My Sea, On the Golden Table, The First Lullaby, Star Prelude) were included to the anthology of Ukrainian poetry (Anthology of Soviet Ukrainian Poetry, 1982), and Russian translators were involved in translating the poems (Dorian Rottenberg, Michael McGreg), which significantly reduced the artistic value of poetry. During the times of independent Ukraine, competitions for translations to the writer's anniversaries were initiated. However, translated works have not been published in collections and anthologies. Active work on translations of M. Vingranovskyj's works is still ahead.
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Islam, Muhammmad Reazul. "Literature in EFL/ESL Classroom: Integrating Conventional Poetry as Authentic Material." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 4, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 312–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v4i3.1052.
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The paper aims to explore how poetry and poetic devices function as authentic sources and as required materials for teaching and learning English as a second language or a foreign language. It affirms that different modes of poetry, for example, tongue twisters, children's rhymes, sonnets, short and long poems, etc., can be stimulating, appealing, and above all, the natural material to the EFL/ESL classrooms. Through an interactive and integrated teaching approach, the paper intends to promote and motivate learners and teachers to use poetry as a functional source of literature for teaching English as a target language. Simultaneously, the study emphasises the constructive function of literature in developing a language learning process. The paper represents general sources or materials widely used in EFL/ ESL classrooms for decades. It proclaims why including authentic or natural material is inevitable to revitalize the language learning process. It profoundly claims that using conventional poetry in EFL/ESL classrooms can empower the teaching pedagogy with its own stylistic and pragmatic features. To focus on the pedagogical dimension of poetry in second language classrooms, the article demonstrates how a poem can relate to and integrate to enhance the English language and covers the four core language skills, grammar, and vocabulary through a series of interactive classroom activities.
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Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, Elzbieta. "Humorous nonsense and multimodality in British and American children's poetry." European Journal of Humour Research 5, no. 3 (November 21, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2017.5.3.kluczewska.
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Nonsense and humour are two cognitive and linguistic phenomena that frequently overlap. The focus of this article falls on chosen instances of humorous nonsense poetry, targeted at English-speaking children, which contains verbal and visual modes of expression. Formal sources of nonsense-creation in natural language can be several, among others semantic anomaly, syntactic ill-formedness and structural ambiguity, phonetic and graphological experimentation. The interplay of nonsense with the visuality of the text in children's poetry assumes three distinct forms: 1) visual poems, 2) multimodal texts,, where illustrations, often nonensical and funny in themselves, support the verbal text, and 3) texts based on the phonetic play. Examples will be drawn from the classics of the Anglophone children's poetry: Mother Goose, the Victorian classics L. Carroll and E. Lear, 20th-c. British and American poets - L. Hughes, e.e. cummings, T. Hughes, J. Agard, as well as the Polish-British pair W. Graniczewski and R. Shindler. In all the poems to be analyzed multimodality has an important role to play in the creation and strengthening of the effect of humorous bisociation/incongruity. A tight intertwining of the phonetic, semantic and visual layers in such texts becomes an additional challenge for their translators. The theoretical keystone for our considerations remains H. Bergson's study Laughter (1900/2008), which deftly combines the Superiority, the Incongruity and the Release Theory of Modern Humour Studies. Bergson rightly links the sources and effects of the nonsensical and the comic to the notion of game/play and to the idea of dream-like illusion they create.
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Senís, Juan. "The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry. A Study of Children's Verse in English ed. by Katherine Wakely-Mulroney and Louise Joy." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 57, no. 3 (2019): 77–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2019.0031.
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Doumerc, Eric. "From Imitation to Innovation: Nature Poetry in the English-Speaking Caribbean between the 1920s and the 1970s." Caliban, no. 61 (June 1, 2019): 351–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/caliban.6668.
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Vettorato, Cyril. "Linguistic dissonance and the quest for a Caribbean voice in the poetry of Edward Kamau Brathwaite." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 47, no. 1 (2014): 233–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.2014.1481.
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Theoretician and proponent of a “Nation Language” meant to provide the Caribbean peoples with a decolonized set of words and concepts adapted to their particular worldview and historical experience, Barbadian author Kamau Brathwaite did not, as might have been expected, elaborate a monolithic Creole poetics. Instead of basing his creative work on the “defense and illustration” of one particular, localized language, Brathwaite experimented with linguistic plurality and dissonance as means for an opening of the possible. This poetic project is at the core of his 1973 trilogy The Arrivants, where the friction between Standard English, Bajan, Jamaican Patois, African American Vernacular, Haitian Creole and Akan parallels the different territories, voices and historicities of the African Diaspora. The experiments with linguistic and cultural frictions make the reader question his/her own linguistic reflexes and imagine new communities.
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Khan, Steven K. "Maroon Theory and Me-thou-poeisis." Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies 13, no. 2 (July 23, 2016): 62–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40237.
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Taking ‘maroon’ as a complexly embodied psychoanalytic hermeneutic aesthetic in Caribbean literatures in English I tell a story of my own production as a curriculum scholar with others through poetry and photographs. In many ways aspects of my experience of doctoral education in curriculum studies in Canada can be described as a marooning. This perhaps is not a unique experience. However, in my case, very early on in the process – less than two months in – I physically abandoned my doctoral seminar and though my body returned to the classroom in the coming weeks I do not think my spirit ever has. That moment has become an identity marker, somatically sutured and indexed to a mythopoetic re-construction of a-Being-not-at-home-with-oneself.
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Birbalsingh, Frank. "History and the West Indian nation." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 72, no. 3-4 (January 1, 1998): 283–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002594.
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[First paragraph]The Art of Kamau Brathwaite. STEWART BROWN (ed.). Bridgend, Wales: Seren/Poetry Wales Press, 1995. 275 pp. (Cloth US$ 50.00, Paper US$ 22.95)Atlantic Passages: History, Community, and Language in the Fiction of Sam Selvon. MARK LOOKER. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. x + 243 pp. (Cloth n.p.)Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History. SUPRIYA NAIR. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. viii + 171 pp. (Cloth US$ 34.50)Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life. LlZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. xii + 335 pp. (Cloth US$ 55.00, Paper US$ 18.95)Of the four books to be considered here, those on Brathwaite, Selvon, and Lamming fit snugly together into a natural category of literature that has to do with the emergence of a Creole or African-centered Caribbean culture, and related issues of race, color, class, history, and nationality. The fourth is a biography of Phyllis Shand Allfrey, a white West Indian, who is of an altogether different race, color, and class than from the other three. Yet the four books are linked together by nationality, for Allfrey and the others are all citizens of one region, the English-speaking West Indies, which, as the Federation of the West Indies between 1958 and 1962, formed a single nation.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Children's poetry, Caribbean (English)"
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Pearn, Julie. "Poetry as a performing art in the English-speaking Caribbean." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1796/.
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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that there is a direct relationship between the emergence of poetry as a performing art in the English speaking Caribbean and phases of nationalist agitation from the uprisings against unemployment, low pay and colonial neglect during 1937-8 to the present. Though the poetry has many variations in scope, ranging from light-hearted entertainment, its principal momentum has been one of protest, nationalism and revolutionary sentiment. The thesis seeks to relate tone, style and content both to specific periods and cultural contexts, and to the degree of engagement of the individual artist in the political struggle against oppression. Frequently theatrical, the poetry has commanded a stage and a popular audience. Though urban in style, it is rooted in older, rural traditions. Creole, the vernacular of the masses, is a vital common denominator. The poetry is aurally stimulating, and often highly rhythmic. The popular music of the day has played an integral part, and formative role in terms of composition. The fundamental historical dynamic of the English-speaking Caribbean has been one of violent imperialist imposition on the one hand, and resistance by the black masses on the other. Creole language, with its strong residuum of African grammatical constructs, concepts and vocabulary, has been a central vehicle of resistance. It is a low-status language in relation to the officially-endorsed Standard English. The thesis argues that artists' assertion of Creole, and total identification with it through their own voice, is a significant act of defiance and patriotism. Periods of heightened agitation in the recent past have each led to the emergence of a distinctive form of performance poetry. Chapter two examines the role of Louise Bennett as a mouthpiece of black pride and nationalist sentiment largely in the period preceding independence. Her principal aim is the affirmation of the black Jamaican's fundamental humanity. She uses laughter both as a curative emotional release and as an expression of mental freedom. She lays the foundations of a comic tradition which does not fundamentally challenge the contradictions of the post-independence period. Chapter three relates the emergence of the Dub Poets of Jamaica to the development of Rastafarianism into a mass post-independence nationalist revival, and to the contribution of intellectuals, most symbolically Walter Rodney, to the process of decolonization. Reggae music, the principal creative response to the dynamics of the period both in terms of lyrics and rhythmic tension, infuses the work of Michael Smith, Cku Onuora, Mutabaruka and Erian Meeks examined in this study. Chapter four illustrates the development of performed poetry in the context of periods of insurrection and revolution in the East Caribbean. It examines the Black Rower movement as a stimulus to cultural nationalism and revolutionary sentiment, and its transcendence to internationalism and socialism in the context of the Grenada Revolution. Abdul Malik straddles and exemplifies the creative dynamic which exists between urban, industrial Trinidad and its tiny, rural and poor neighbour, Grenada.
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Jacko, June Marie. "The Teaching of Children's Poetry: An Exploration of Instructional Practices in University Courses of Children's Literature, English, Language Arts, and Reading Education." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4697/.
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There are no studies which focus on the instructional practices employed in the teaching of children's poetry at the university level. This project aimed to describe the instructional practices utilized in the teaching of children's poetry at universities across the United States. Limited to the practices of the university professors and adjunct instructors who were members of the Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) at the time of this study, this investigation attempted to ascertain the general perceptions of poetry held by these university professors and adjunct instructors, their in-class instructional practices, and the types of poetry assignments given. Additionally, this study revealed both the poets typically highlighted and the goals held by professors and instructors in courses of children's literature, English, language arts, library science, and reading education. A mixed-methods design provided the framework for the descriptive data gleaned from the Poetry Use Survey. Quantitative data analysis yielded descriptive statistical data (means, standard deviations, ranges, percentages). Qualitative data analysis (manual and computer-assisted techniques) yielded categories and frequencies of response. Major findings included respondents': (a) belief that the teaching of poetry was important, (b) general disagreement for single, "correct" interpretations of poetry and general agreement in support of multiple interpretations, (c) general disagreement whether current curricular demands have prevented or impaired their teaching of poetry, (e) high frequency of reading poetry out loud in class, (f) emphasis on inclusion of award-winning poets in assignments, (g) instructional emphasis on variety and breadth in the selection of poets highlighted in a particular course, (h) goals for inclusion of poetry centered on pedagogical issues (e.g., frequent use, appreciation of craft; writing models; thematic uses) in language arts and across content areas.
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Georges, Richard William Ethan. "Charting the sea in Caribbean poetry : Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, Dionne Brand, Alphaeus Norman, Verna Penn Moll, and Richard Georges." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66040/.
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This thesis consists of a poetry manuscript and a critical component that considers the poetics and history that inform the writing of that manuscript. Critical Component: Charting the Sea in Caribbean Poetry This thesis focuses on the influence of the sea in constructing identity in the writing of Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, and Dionne Brand. It is particularly interested in examining how these poets trace identity primarily in The Arrivants, Omeros, and No Language is Neutral through their various employments of the sea and liquidity in those works. I then read selections from two of my poetic forbearers from the British Virgin Islands - Alphaeus Norman and Verna Penn Moll - in order to examine the construction of the sea in their poetry against the canonised work of Brathwaite, Walcott, and Brand. I argue through close contextual readings of the selected works that through engagement of various approaches each poet arrives at a portrait of Caribbean identity that is constructed integrally through the fluid, mutable natures of the sea. The five poets are scrutinised in four chapters, in relation to their personal philosophies regarding national or regional identity through essay writings and interviews but more prominently in close readings of their poetry and in particular their representations of the sea. I begin by arguing that in Brathwaite's The Arrivants (1980), the importance of the sea in the various formations of West Indian identity is represented through the exercising of his tidalectic process in his reconstructions of the archetypes of Legba and Ananse, and his ritualising of cricket and calypso. In Walcott's Omeros (1990), the sea is presented as the embodiment of history itself through which all of Saint Lucia's contemporary inhabitants must access their ancestral memories. Walcott utilises the Atlantic as a creolising force in his reimagining of the Homeric archetypes of Philoctetes, Achilles, Hector, and Helen. Brand however, departs from this metaphorical interpretation of the sea and turns inward, redefining the boundaries of land, sea, and sexual desire in Trinidad through a remapping of that island that is focused on the ocean, waterways, and the bodies of women. Lastly, British Virgin Islander poets Alphaeus Osario Norman and Verna Penn Moll embrace different mythic versions of the sea. Norman's work creates a distinct sailor aesthetic that resonates with classic European naval and militaristic poetry as a way to invoke a national pride, while Penn Moll focuses on performances of cultural and communal waterside rituals to frame narratives of local history and village culture. Ultimately, I argue that the sea is presented variously as a portal through which history and tribal memory can be accessed, and as a supernaturally transformative force for the poet. Creative Component: Make Us All Islands Make Us All Islands is a poetry manuscript based in the British Virgin Islands that explores historical and personal relationships with the sea. The first section revolves around the various arrivals of liberated Africans rescued from slave ships wrecked or captured by the British Navy in the early 1800s. The liberated Africans were not enslaved, but rather forced into indentureship before ultimately being segregated from society and then disappearing from history. The second section is built around the departure of a generation of Tortolan men to work in the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic at the turn of the following century, alongside other Anglophone Afro-Caribbean migrants. A large portion of these poems are built around accounts of the greatest boating disaster in the islands' history, the loss of a schooner christened Fancy Me which wrecked in a hurricane in 1926 off the coast of the Dominican island Saona. The final movement personalises this exercise and focuses on the poet's interactions with the sea and memory.
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Shimizu, Kanako. "Above and Below the Sky: Examining Representations of the Atomic Bomb in Japan and in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1601.
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This study of atomic-bomb literature on Hiroshima will be through a critical lens, largely through postcolonial theory and reader-response criticism. It will be a discussion on the social and political implications behind the popularization of certain works. The discussed texts will not necessarily be written by the Japanese or by survivors of the atomic bomb: in the first case, I will be examining authorial intent and its relation to the intended reader responses from the implied American audience to study perpetuations of propaganda after the war. This paper will also be examining the interlingual translatability of psychological and physical trauma surrounding the atomic bomb and will be exploring the capacities of language to express an emotional and often sensitive topic.
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Nicholson, Michelle A. "“To be men, not destroyers”: Developing Dabrowskian Personalities in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2628.
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Kazimierz Dabrowski’s psychological theory of positive disintegration is a lesser known theory of personality development that offers an alternative critical perspective of literature. It provides a framework for the characterization of postmodern protagonists who move beyond heroic indoctrination to construct their own self-organized, autonomous identities. Ezra Pound’s The Cantos captures the speaker-poet’s extensive process of inner conflict, providing a unique opportunity to track the progress of the hero’s transformation into a personality, or a man. American Gods is a more fully realized portrayal of a character who undergoes the complete paradigmatic collapse of positive disintegration and deliberate self-derived self-revision in a more distilled linear fashion. Importantly, using a Dabrowskian lens to re-examine contemporary literature that has evolved to portray how the experience of psychopathology leads to metaphorical death—which may have any combination of negative or positive outcomes—has not only socio-cultural significance but important personal implications as well.
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Jennings, Lisa Gay Vitkus Daniel J. "Renaissance models for Caribbean poets identity, authenticity and the early modern lyric revisited /." Diss., 2005. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04152005-135157.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2005.Advisor: Dr. Daniel Vitkus, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 7, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains v, 54 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Stewart-Reid, Karlene. "Silent Voices: An Exploratory Study of Caribbean Immigrant Parents' and Children's Interaction with Teachers in Toronto." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42650.
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One of the challenges that Caribbean immigrant parents and children face as they settle into their new environment is interacting with teachers using their variety of English. This study seeks to explore the experiences of Caribbean immigrant parents and their children in their interactions with teachers in Toronto and the perceptions that they have about these interactions. The author’s purpose is to bring voice to their language encounters.
Qualitative analysis is utilized throughout the general discussion of the study. Using Colaizzi’s (1978) phenomenology approach, data was collected through semi-structured interviews from a sample of six immigrant parents and seven children within Toronto. The central themes that emerge from the data are organized under the four research questions. The results of the research may assist policy makers, educators, teachers, and support staff who plan and implement programs geared towards enhancing the interaction between themselves and Caribbean immigrant students and parents.
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Austen, Veronica J. "Inhabiting the Page: Visual Experimentation in Caribbean Poetry." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2622.
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This project explores visually experimental poetry as a particular trend in Caribbean poetry since the 1970's. Although visual experimentation in Caribbean poetry is immediately recognizable – for example, its play with font styles and sizes, its jagged margins, its division of the page into multiple discourse spaces, its use of images – little critical attention has been paid to the visual qualities of Caribbean poetry. Instead, definitions of Caribbean poetry have remained focussed upon oral/aural aesthetics, excluding its use of and contribution to late 20th century experimental poetic practice. By focussing on the poetry of Shake Keane, Claire Harris, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, and LeRoy Clarke, I bring post-colonial literary criticism into discussion with contemporary debates regarding visual poetic practice in North America. In so doing, this project values Caribbean visual poetry both for its expression of Caribbean cultural experience and for its contributions to broader experimental poetry movements. I argue that visual experimentation functions to disrupt traditional linear reading processes, which thereby allows poets to perform the flux of time and space in post-colonial contexts. Furthermore, such disruption of linear reading practices, often manifested by the positioning of multiple discourses on one page, serves to create a polyvocal discourse that resists patriarchal and colonialist power structures. Valuing the visual qualities of Caribbean poetry as signifying elements, this dissertation explores the aesthetic and social implications of inscription and visual design in Caribbean poetry.
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丁婉儀. "Motivating jnuior high school students to read english by reading aloud shel silverstein's humorurs children's poetry." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52977248923192707577.
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Azank, Natasha. "The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics of Resistance in Puerto Rican Poetry." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3498327.
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This dissertation examines how the work of four Puerto Rican poets – Julia de Burgos, Clemente Soto Vélez, Martín Espada, and Naomi Ayala – demonstrates a poetics of resistance. While resistance takes a variety of forms in their poetic discourse, this project asserts that these poets have and continue to play an integral role in the cultural decolonization of Puerto Rico, which has been generally unacknowledged in both the critical scholarship on their work and the narrative of Puerto Rico’s anti-colonial struggle. Chapter One discuses the theoretical concepts used in defining a poetics of resistance, including Barbara Harlow’s definition of resistance literature, Edward Said’s concepts of cultural decolonization, and Jahan Ramazani’s theory of transnational poetics. Chapter Two provides an overview of Puerto Rico’s unique political status and highlights several pivotal events in the nation’s history, such as El Grito de Lares, the Ponce Massacre, and the Vieques Protest to demonstrate the continuity of the Puerto Rican people’s resistance to oppression and attempted subversion of their colonial status. Chapter Three examines Julia de Burgos’ understudied poems of resistance and argues that she employs a rhetoric of resistance through the use of repetition, personification, and war imagery in order to raise the consciousness of her fellow Puerto Ricans and to provoke her audience into action. By analyzing Clemente Soto Vélez’s use of personification, anaphora, and most importantly, juxtaposition, Chapter Four demonstrates that his poetry functions as a dialectical process and contends that the innovative form he develops throughout his poetic career reinforces his radical perspective for an egalitarian society. Chapter Five illustrates how Martín Espada utilizes rich metaphor, sensory details, and musical imagery to foreground issues of social class, racism, and economic exploitation across geographic, national, and cultural borders. Chapter six traces Naomi Ayala’s feminist discourse of resistance that denounces social injustice while simultaneously expressing a female identity that seeks liberation through her understanding of history, her reverence for memory, and her relationship with the earth. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that Burgos, Soto Vélez, Espada, and Ayala not only advocate for but also enact resistance and social justice through their art.
Books on the topic "Children's poetry, Caribbean (English)"
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Agard, John, and Grace Nichols. A Caribbean dozen: Poems from Caribbean poets. Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 1994.
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1949-, Agard John, Nichols Grace 1950-, and Felstead Cathie ill, eds. A Caribbean dozen: A collection of poems. London: Walker Books, 1996.
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Agard, John. No hickory no dickory no dock: Caribbean nursery rhymes. Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 1995.
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Agard, John. No hickory, no dickory, no dock: A collection of Caribbean nursery rhymes. London: Viking, 1991.
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Nichols, Grace. Paint me a poem: New poems inspired by paintings and sculptures in Tate. London: A. & C. Black, 2004.
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Agard, John. Say it again, granny!: Twenty poems from Caribbean proverbs. [London]: Little Mammoth, 1990.
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Agard, John. Say it again, granny!: Twenty poems from Caribbean proverbs. London: Magnet, 1987.
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Patke, Rajeev S. "The Caribbean." In Postcolonial Poetry in english, 80–104. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199298884.003.0004.
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Abstract The chief feature of Caribbean societies is their extreme heterogeneity, which is the product of several centuries of slavery and indentured labour organized into plantation colonies in order to generate profit for Europeans. The contemporary Caribbean is also notable for a restless energy that domesticates language to local rhythms and intonations, while propelling many of its writers into diasporic movement from the homes to which their ancestors were transplanted. Caribbean plurality partakes equally of the exuberant and the troubled. Its logic of self-discovery is driven by a powerful sense of collective displacement.
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Sanderson-Cole, Karen, and Barbara Lalla. "Creole vs. Standard English." In Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1, 153–69. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496844514.003.0010.
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This chapter takes a roughly chronological view (beginning in the 1950s) to discuss issues related to representation of voice in Caribbean children’s literature. The significance of this issue is interrogated against a historical and cultural background that has traditionally constrained the ways in which the Caribbean child could be represented within a narrative. A number of issues raised include defining children’s literature; what constitutes appropriate material for children; negotiating voice—who sees—adult or child; language choice—Standard or Creole; and language variety. The issues surrounding voice within the region are many and writers continue to be challenged to achieve the delicate balance between representation and subject matter in a manner that does not alienate their ultimate audience—the child. Books covered include Jean D’Costa’s Voice in the Wind(1978), Zee Edgell’s Beka Lamb(1982), Merle Hodge’s Life of Laetitia(1993), Trish Cooke and Caroline Binch’s Look Back!(2019), and Coleen Smith-Denis’s Inner City Girl (2009).
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Sanderson-Cole, Karen, and Barbara Lalla. "Creole vs. Standard English:." In Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1, 153–69. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.2990353.13.
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"Transcultural Perspectives in Caribbean Poetry." In Transcultural English Studies, 233–47. Brill | Rodopi, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042028845_015.
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Nies, Betsy. "Anglophone Caribbean Children’s Literature A Snapshot." In Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1, 72–82. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496844514.003.0004.
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This chapter reviews the transition in children’s literature after the 1960s from colonialist to postcolonialist content as a framework for understanding contemporary Anglophone Caribbean children’s literature. Local voices integrated folklore into curricular material beginning in the 1930s, with far more expansive output after 1960. Writers offer historical and realistic fiction that countered colonialist paradigms. Waves of immigration to the US, Canada, and Great Britain (with its Caribbean Arts Movement) contributed to the rise of such literature, proliferating into children’s poetry, folklore, and rhyming books that integrating tastes of the region’s linguistic Creole-informed cadences. In the past two decades, festival awards, non-profit organizations, and local publishing houses have fostered the development of young adult literature that now treats problems common to the genre—emerging sexuality, mental health, sports, romance, and issues of identity. Writers address contemporary problems such as poverty, global warming, and political corruption through multiple genres popular among the age group including dystopian fiction, romance, mystery, and new realism, often laced with bits of Caribbean mythology.
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Edward, Summer. "The Picture Book Is Political." In Caribbean Children's LIterature, Volume 2, 25–56. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496844583.003.0002.
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This essay provides an extensive overview of Caribbean picture books, middle grade, and young adult books by writers from the Caribbean. The chapter explores the politically engaged nature of children’s literature in literature written in or translated into English. Categories include anti-slavery and abolition, anti-colonialism and independence, labor organizing and workers’ rights, Pan-Africanism and black consciousness, civil rights, immigrant rights, environmentalism, poverty, communism and socialism, gender and sexuality, disability rights, and political orientation. An appendix breaks down the various books according to age level, providing a rich resource for educators and librarians interested in providing literature written by those from the region, culturally authoritative stories written by Caribbean people themselves. The selections have publication dates spanning from 1949 to 2019 and are all currently in print.
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Cornet, Florencia V. "Language, Authenticity, and Representation in Dutch Caribbean Children’s and Young Adult Literature." In Caribbean Children's Literature, Volume 1, 35–52. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496844514.003.0002.
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This chapter provides a brief overview of children’s and young adult literature from the Dutch Caribbean. The focus is primarily on literature from Curaçao but extends into works produced by writers from Aruba, Bonaire, and Sint Maarten. The intention is to capture an “authentic” ontology in Dutch Caribbean children’s and young adult literature by tracing the past and present cultural aesthetics presented in the works by writers who originate from these islands. Ultimately, the chapter introduces the aesthetic consciousness of a postcolonial people still grappling with a linguistic and cultural identity tacitly still informed by “the gaze” of the metropolis. Dutch Caribbean writers of children’s and young adult literature negotiate the coloniality of power and seek to introduce a subjectivity and “living culture” sensed and authorized on Dutch Caribbean soil. Authors covered include Miep Diekmann, Diana Lebacs, and Loekie Morales. Literary languages of books covered Papiamentu/o, Spanish, Dutch, and English.
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Patke, Rajeev S. "Black Africa." In Postcolonial Poetry in english, 105–29. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199298884.003.0005.
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Abstract Contemporary African poetry remains implicated in the life of politics and the fate of nations with a fixity of concern not found in Asia or the Caribbean. The end of colonialism was followed in most African countries by decades of native misrule. For three generations, African poets have given voice to a wide range of experiences, always conscious that their use of English links them across regional boundaries, while they present the language with the challenge of dealing with the local in all its uniqueness, in circumstances ravaged by civil war, natural disasters, human greed, and political misrule.
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Patke, Rajeev S. "Techniques of self-representation." In Postcolonial Poetry in english, 180–206. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199298884.003.0008.
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Abstract The consolidation of local traditions in the former colonies has depended on the capacity of poets to take on the challenges of selfrepresentation in a cultural climate relatively free of cultural cringe. The struggle to achieve that freedom is here illustrated in three case studies. The first shows African poets from the 1960s and ‘70s learning to use indigenous myths in a context informed by modernist writing. The second traces the growth of confidence in contemporary writing by women, chiefly from the Caribbean. The third examines the scope for creative overlap between a postcolonial predicament and a postmodern sensibility, as exemplified by the bilingual work of a poet from South Asia. The extended treatment given his work is meant to show how the literal and metaphorical activity of translation is at work in the spread of modernist and postmodernist practices to postcolonial poetry.
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Pikalova, Anna. "THE GENESIS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CHILDREN'S POETRY." In Theoretical and practical aspects of the development of modern science: the experience of countries of Europe and prospects for Ukraine. Publishing House “Baltija Publishing”, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-571-30-5_15.
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