English Curriculum: Race, Racism, Literary Criticism by

Anti-Racist Shakespeare

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

Professor Farah Karim-Cooper examines the racial meanings behind the language of light/dark and white/black used in Shakespeare’s England

#SuchStuff Podcast: Shakespeare and Race

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

This podcast asks: what does it mean to be a person of colour and study, teach, perform and read Shakespeare?

The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

Post Colonial Reading of The Tempest

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from The British Library: Post-colonial readings of The Tempest were inspired by the decolonisation movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Jyotsna Singh describes how these readings challenge more traditional interpretations of the play, questioning Prospero's ownership of the island and rethinking the role of Caliban.

Multi-culturalism in Shakespeare's plays

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from The British Library

Othello: the role that entices and enrages actors of all skin colours

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from The British Library: Andrew Dickson explores how different actors have struggled with the character of Othello and the play's depiction of race.

Playing Othello

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from The British Library: Hugh Quarshie describes his reservations about Othello, and how he used these to shape the production in which he played the title role.

Racism, Misogyny and Motiveless Malignity in Othello

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from The British Library: The causes of the tragedy of Othello are more complex and disturbing than they might at first appear, Kiernan Ryan contends.

Critical Approaches To Othello

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from the British Library: There have been numerous interpretations of Othello over the last 400 years. Virginia Mason Vaughan discusses four recent critical approaches: feminist, new historicist, marxist and post-colonial

The Tempest and the Literature of Wonder

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from the British Library: Martin Butler shows how Renaissance travel, trade and colonisation shaped the portrayal of Caliban and the Italians in The Tempest.

A Jewish Reading of the Merchant of Venice

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from the British Library: From Antonio spitting on Shylock's 'Jewish gabardine' to the moneylender's famous speech, 'If you prick us, do we not bleed?': Dr Aviva Dautch responds to The Merchant of Venice as a Jewish reader.

How were the Jews regarded in 16th-century England?

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from the British Library: Jews in 16th-century England practised their religion secretly, and many of those raised in the Jewish faith either converted to Christianity or pretended to have done so. James Shapiro considers Elizabethan prejudices and paranoia about Jews, putting Shakespeare's Shylock in context.

5 Ways To Tackle English Literature's Lack of Diversity

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from TES

The Figure of Bertha Mason

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from the British Library: Carol Atherton explores the character of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre through ideas of the ‘Other’, Charlotte Brontë’s narrative doubling and 19th-century attitudes towards madness and ethnicity.

Teaching Resource: The Figure of Bertha Mason

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

Resource from The British Library

Exoticism in 19th Century Literature

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

An article from The British Library. Includes a section on Imperialism in Jane Eyre

Diversity in Children's and YA Literature

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

A padlet of articles, videos and reports to support CPD/learning about diversity in children's lit.

Lit in Colour Report

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

The Lit in Colour report focuses on diversity within the English curriculum. There are sections on teaching canonical literature in a multicultural context, eg interrogating the colonial legacy in The SIgn of Four.

Burnt Sugar- KS4 English Language Resource (unseen fiction text)

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

The four activities in this resource pack give KS4 students opportunities to engage with an unseen fiction text. They include activities for comprehension and critical analysis, structuring ideas and looking for descriptive and narrative techniques, using evidence. A practice GCSE English Language exam paper is also included, using an extract from the book. The resource pack can be downloaded below.

Minty Alley- KS4 English Language Resource (unseen fiction text)

2021-09-20 09:36:41 UTC

Black literature timeline from the British Library

admin5219 — 2021-10-06 14:28:18 UTC

This literary timeline explores the history of Black literature and writing in Britain through around 50 texts. It includes works by writers living and working in Britain, as well as titles first published here and authored by people who were born in former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and Americas.

AQA added new drama texts

admin5219 — 2023-01-24 14:20:42 UTC

Info on new set texts

admin5219 — 2023-01-24 14:21:22 UTC

Race in the English Classroom- NATE Report

admin5219 — 2023-01-24 14:31:02 UTC

Shakespeare, Race and Performance: a lecture from Professor Farah Karim-Cooper

admin5219 — 2023-01-24 14:47:36 UTC

Interesting lecture to watch as part of CPD

Monster She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Non-Fiction Book)

admin5219 — 2023-01-24 14:51:12 UTC

A fantastic non-fiction book about women writing horror and speculative fiction: includes Octavia Butler, Helen Oyeyemi

This is Shakespeare- Emma Smith

admin5219 — 2023-01-24 14:56:01 UTC

A really great set of essays on Shakespeare's plays exploring attitudes of the time and how we read the plays now. The Othello essay looks at the spaces and gaps in the text that allow for different interpretations and focuses this on the concept of race.

Do we need to dismantle the literary canon? Jeffrey Boakye article

admin5219 — 2023-06-12 14:06:38 UTC

Lit Legacies: SOW for Princess and The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba

admin5219 — 2024-03-05 15:47:01 UTC

Lit Legacies have created a SOW and resources for Princess and The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba (AQA GCSE syllabus).

https://twitter.com/litlegacies2023