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This document provides background information on representative texts and authors from Latin America and Africa, highlighting the diversity and complexity of their literatures. It also discusses the importance of close reading as a method for analyzing literary works, outlining steps for conducting a close analysis and critical interpretation. The document prepares learners to engage with texts from Asia, North America, and Europe as well.

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This document provides background information on representative texts and authors from Latin America and Africa, highlighting the diversity and complexity of their literatures. It also discusses the importance of close reading as a method for analyzing literary works, outlining steps for conducting a close analysis and critical interpretation. The document prepares learners to engage with texts from Asia, North America, and Europe as well.

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I.

Background Information for Learners


This learning activity sheet contains learnings and activities about
representative texts and authors from Latin America and Africa.
Latin American Literature refers to written and oral works created by
literary writers in South America, and the Caribbean. The languages which
Latin American authors usually use in writing are Spanish, Portuguese,
English, or a language native to their specific country. Latin American
literature is the literature of the Spanish speaking countries of the Western
Hemisphere. Historically, Latin American Literature also includes the literary
expression of the highly developed American Indian civilizations which was
conquered by the Spaniards. So, as the years went, Latin American literature
was able to develop a rich and complex diversity of themes, creative idioms,
and styles.
Among those included in the Latin American literature are the
Dominican Latina writer Julia Alvarez with her novel, In the Name of Salome,
rising contemporary literature star Yuri Herrera from Mexico with his
groundbreaking novel, Signs Preceding the End of the World, Pulitzer Prize-
winning Junot Diaz with one of his earlier short stories, "How to Date a Brown
Girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)," and Haitian Edwidge Danticat's short
story, "Ghosts."
Africa is called the "Dark Continent" because most people know very
little about this continent since it remained unexplored over a long period of
time. Their literature contains the body of traditional oral and written works
expressed in Afro-Asiatic, African, and European languages. Modern African
literatures were born in the educational systems imposed by colonialism,
with models drawn from Europe rather than existing African traditions.
Among the African literary texts and authors are: Poems, "My Black is
Beautiful (Woman)" and "My Black is Beautiful (Man)" by Naomi Johnson,
Short Story, "A Private Experience" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Short
Story, "Inscape" by Yaa Gyasi, Short Story, "War for God" by Zaynab Quadri
and "The Sack" by Namwali Serpell.

II. Background Information for Learners


Reading is a widely used approach to enhance reading comprehension.
For the students to be able to engage in the reading of complex texts, close
reading is important. Close reading is a method of analyzing literary works
which gives focus on the particular details of a passage or text in order to
have a precise and deep understanding of the text; its form, meaning and
even the author's style of writing.
Assessments about writing a close analysis and critical interpretation
of literary texts from representative texts and authors from Asia, North
America and Europe wil be the coverage in this Learning Activity Sheet.
Critical analysis is a careful examination and evaluation of a text,
image, or other work or performance while Close reading is deep analysis of
how a literary text works; it is both a reading process and something you
include in a literary analysis paper, though in a refined form. Fiction writers
and poets build texts out of many central components, including subject,
form, and specific word choices. Literary analysis involves examining these
components, which allows us to find in small parts of the text clues to help
us understand the whole. Close reading is a process of finding as much
information as you can in order to form as many questions as you can.
Here are the steps to do the close analysis and critical interpretation of
literary text.
Step 1: Read the passage. Take notes as you read.
Step 2: Analyze the passage
Step 3: Develop a descriptive thesis
Step 4: Construct an argument about the passage
Step 5: Develop an outline based on your thesis.
Now that you have learned the steps on how to analyze the texts, you
are going to write a close analysis and interpretation of a literary text from
the continents of Asla, North America, and Europe. Look at the table below
and see the representative texts and authors from these continents.

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