Oral Traditions & Culture
After studying Module 1: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss how your own cultural practices, traditions, and stories have shaped you as a person.
- Explain how Jamaica Kincaid’s story is relatable or unrelatable.
- Think about it from several perspectives, personal, historical, political, or even ethical.
- Your initial post should be at least 200 words, formatted and cited in current MLA style with support from the textbook and lecture materials.
Read
- Ringo, Heather, and Athena Kashyap. “Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature (Ringo and Kashyap).” Humanities LibreTexts, ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative, 31 Mar. 2023, human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/Writing_and_Critical_Thinking_Through_Literature_(Ringo_and_Kashyap).
- Chapter 4: About Fiction – Short Stories and the NovelLinks to an external site.
- Nast, Condé. ““Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid.” The New Yorker, 19 June 1978, www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl?verso=true.Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”Links to an external site.