Cannibalism and Carnivalesque: Incorporation as Utopia in the Early Image of America

Klarer, Mario

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“…In this regard, wh-word questions were used – for example, ‘Who is the first person the man is saying goodbye to?’, ‘How old were they when they knew each other?’ and ‘What does the man see before he dies?’. This part adopted a formalist approach and was more structured (Klarer, 1999). It aimed to meet students’ expectation of exam preparation.…”

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“…The stylistic approach did not only teach the students the language per se, but also what the language can do (Hall, 2015; Paran, 2008). Informed by the idea of New Criticism, multiple meanings and paradox were allowed (Klarer, 1999). As songs provide a personal context for affective involvement, students should be able to express their feelings, thoughts and experiences without being confined to the biological data or psychological conditions of the author.…”

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Engaging Exam-Oriented Students in Communicative Language Teaching by ‘Packaging’ Learning English Through Songs as Exam Practice

Yung

2021

RELC Journal

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Literature has long been used as a tool for language teaching and learning. In the New Academic Structure in Hong Kong, it has become an important element in the senior secondary English language curriculum to promote communicative language teaching (CLT) with a process-oriented approach. However, as in many other English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts where high-stakes testing prevails, Hong Kong students are highly exam-oriented and expect teachers to teach to the test. Because there is no direct assessment on literature in the English language curriculum, many teachers find it challenging to balance CLT through literature and exam preparation. To address this issue, this article describes an innovation of teaching ESL through songs by ‘packaging’ it as exam practice to engage exam-oriented students in CLT. A series of activities derived from the song Seasons in the Sun was implemented in the ESL classrooms in a secondary school in Hong Kong. Based on the author’s observations and reflections informed by teachers’ and students’ comments, the students were first motivated, at least instrumentally, by the relevance of the activities to the listening paper in the public exam when they saw the similarities between the classroom tasks and past exam questions. Once the students felt motivated, they were more easily engaged in a variety of CLT activities, which encouraged the use of English for authentic and meaningful communication. This article offers pedagogical implications for ESL/EFL teachers to implement CLT through literature in exam-oriented contexts.

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Engaging Exam-Oriented Students in Communicative Language Teaching by ‘Packaging’ Learning English Through Songs as Exam Practice

Yung

2021

RELC Journal

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“…Only years before, witch-hunters in Europe-especially in Germany-had accused suspected women of killing and eating babies. 59 But the English were not averse to making use of human bodies for medical purposes. Doctors recorded treatments for epilepsy, vertigo, and other "lunatisms" that recommended eating dried placenta and powdered human skull, and these medical recipes, or receipts, made their way from pharmacopoeias into contemporary cookbooks.…”

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The “tragicall historie”: Cannibalism and Abundance in Colonial Jamestown

Herrmann¹

2011

The William and Mary Quarterly

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“…Secondo Collins Dictionary il termine fu utilizzato da Colombo per denotare le Caribe (caniba nella lingua indigena Arawak). SecondoKlarer (1999) il passaggio terminologico da antropofago a cannibale avviene con i testi che accompagnano le scoperte geografiche del continente americano da parte di Colombo e Vespucci, passando, con il neologismo cannibale, da un termine etnografico-geografico a uno tecnico e più generale di cui si serviva, simultaneamente, come un "pars pro toto" per il nuovo continente e i suoi abianti (391).4 Rice (1998) mette in mostra nel suo studio sul Black Atlantic il terrore degli africani durante la tratta degli schiavi: quelli rimasti in Africa si chiedevano perché l'uomo bianco ne avesse portati via così tanti se non per mangiarli, e gli schiavi sulle navi si domandavano perché fossero costretti a nutrirsi se non per diventare più grassi prima di essere mangiati.…”

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Il futuro cannibale: Riflessioni intempestive su <i>Free Karma Food</i> di Wu Ming 5 e <i>Sirene</i> di Laura Pugno

Skalle¹

2019

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I due romanzi analizzati nel presente articolo, Free Karma Food (Wu Ming 5 2006) e Sirene (Pugno 2007), sono ambedue ambientati in un futuro distopico molto vicino al tempo contemporaneo. Nel romanzo di Laura Pugno sono state scoperte delle sirene nell’oceano, e le mitologiche cantatrici sono catturate, allevate e mangiate come sushi dalla classe dirigente della società, la mafia yakuza. Il romanzo di Wu Ming 5, ambientato nel 2025, offre una visione distopica simile a quella del futuro rappresentato in Sirene. In Free Karma Food, dopo la cosiddetta grande Morìa, con l’estinzione delle vacche, dei maiali e animali simili, la gente si nutre di carne di gatto, di cane e di carne umana. Come nel romanzo di Pugno, la carne uman(oide) è ammessa soltanto agli uomini ricchi e potenti. Perché l’antropofagia diventa un tema nella letteratura e nella cultura contemporanee? È possibile leggere le interpretazioni dell’avvenire dei due romanzi come una critica alla società odierna e una riflessione sulla nostra crisi ecologica? Quali legami (simbolici) tra carne, genere e potere sono rappresentati nei romanzi? Attraverso studi sul cannibalismo nella letteratura, teoria della carne e la filosofia ecofemminista di Val Plumwood, il presente articolo propone delle risposte a queste domande, mostrando alla fine in che modo l’antropocentrismo cannibalistico dei due universi letterari, attraverso il cannibalismo propriamente detto e quello del nostro simile, diventa critica dell’antropocentrismo stesso.

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Cannibalism and Carnivalesque: Incorporation as Utopia in the Early Image of America

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Engaging Exam-Oriented Students in Communicative Language Teaching by ‘Packaging’ Learning English Through Songs as Exam Practice

Engaging Exam-Oriented Students in Communicative Language Teaching by ‘Packaging’ Learning English Through Songs as Exam Practice

The “tragicall historie”: Cannibalism and Abundance in Colonial Jamestown

Il futuro cannibale: Riflessioni intempestive su <i>Free Karma Food</i> di Wu Ming 5 e <i>Sirene</i> di Laura Pugno

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