Promoted by the department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures of the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts at UFRN, this extension course, entitled “The representation of black people in short stories from African-American literature: a dialogical perspective” seeks to examine the representation of black people in short stories from African-American literature based on concepts discussed by the Circle (of Bakhtin), such as word, utterance and discourse (in the novel) that underlie Dialogical Discourse Analysis (ADD).
In this way, methodologically, course participants will discuss texts that support ADD and carry out literary analysis activities. As this extension course is linked to the research project “Contemporary foreign literature: a dialogical perspective of teaching and training (discursive)”, a literary analysis activity of the short story “The Childhood of Jimmy” by Langston Hughes will be carried out in the first meeting, without a prior discussion of the concepts (pre-test) and the repetition of this activity in the last meeting, thus bringing a dialogue between research and extension.
In this format, participants will sign the Free and Informed Consent Form (TCLE) so that the data can be used in the research.
The course will last 20 hours. It will be divided into 8 (eight) face-to-face meetings on Thursdays between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm. An extra hour will be calculated for reading the theoretical texts that will support the discussions in the theoretical classes.
Below is the detailed schedule for each meeting and the hours allocated for activities:
04/20/2017 – Course presentation, ICF signatures and pre-test activity (2 hours);
04/27/2017 – Study of ADD theories (2 hours + 1 hour for readings);
05/04/2017 – Study of ADD theories (2 hours + 1 hour for readings);
05/11/2017 – Short story analysis of African-American literature (2 hours);
05/18/2017 – Study of ADD theories (2 hours + 1 hour for readings);
05/25/2017 – Study of ADD theories (2 hours + 1 hour for readings);
06/01/2017 – Short story analysis of African-American literature (2 hours);
06/08/2017 – Completion of the course – post-test activity (2 hours).