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 Jama


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.