Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School
Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School Unit 1.pdf - Southwest High School
Learning Focus: Perspective and Culture Reader Response Criticism puts you, the reader, and your experiences, biases, values, and attitudes as the central factor in your interpretation of what you read and see. This subjective perspective is the starting point for interpreting literature. In order to increase your field of vision or perspective, try seeing and understanding from another perspective. Experience with other points of view or perspectives can help you see things more objectively. The more you move from a strictly subjective point of view, the more objective you can be about your interpretation and understanding of texts and events. Cultural Criticism examines how differing religious beliefs, ethnicities, class identifications, political beliefs, and individual viewpoints affect how texts are created and interpreted. This critical perspective asks you to examine texts by focusing on how language and culture shape identity and experience. With this perspective you can begin to understand how culture and language work to include and exclude individuals. This perspective seeks to illuminate the relationship between the individual and the group, between the stranger and the village, and between the dominant culture and the subordinate culture. Reflecting about yourself within a cultural context helps you gain an awareness of self as the alien, stranger, outsider or as the insider, member, or villager. Such reflection allows you to broaden your perspective to include a consciousness of self within a community. © 2011 College Board. All rights reserved. 44 SpringBoard® English Textual Power Senior English
What Is Cultural Criticism Activity 1.14 SUGGESTED Learning Strategies: Discussion Groups, Rereading, Questioning the Text, Oral Interpretation, Quickwrite Cultural Criticism Cultural Criticism is another critical lens through which any text can be viewed. This form of criticism examines how different religions, ethnicities, class identifications, political beliefs, and views affect the ways in which texts are created and interpreted. Cultural Criticism suggests that being a part of—or excluded from—a specific group or culture contributes to and affects our understanding of texts. The following statements reflect four common assumptions in the use of Cultural Criticism as a lens for understanding literature. 1. Ethnicity, religious beliefs, social class, and so on are crucial components in formulating plausible interpretations of text. 2. While the emphasis is on diversity of approach and subject matter, Cultural Criticism is not the only means of understanding ourselves and our art. 3. An examination or exploration of the relationship between dominant cultures and the dominated is essential. 4. When looking at a text through the perspective of marginalized peoples, new understandings emerge. Since Cultural Criticism examines texts from the position of those individuals who are in some way marginalized or not part of the dominant culture, studying the following poem by Luis Rodriguez will provide insights on this perspective. Academic VocaBulary Cultural Criticism focuses on the elements of culture and how they affect one’s perceptions and understanding of texts. Word Connections To marginalize is relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit (as in social standing). © 2011 College Board. All rights reserved. unit 1 • Perception Is Everything 45
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Learning Focus:<br />
Perspective and Culture<br />
Reader Response Criticism puts you, the reader, and your experiences,<br />
biases, values, and attitudes as the central factor in your interpretation of<br />
what you read and see. This subjective perspective is the starting point for<br />
interpreting literature. In order to increase your field of vision or perspective,<br />
try seeing and understanding from another perspective. Experience with<br />
other points of view or perspectives can help you see things more objectively.<br />
The more you move from a strictly subjective point of view, the more objective<br />
you can be about your interpretation and understanding of texts and events.<br />
Cultural Criticism examines how differing religious beliefs, ethnicities, class<br />
identifications, political beliefs, and individual viewpoints affect how texts<br />
are created and interpreted. This critical perspective asks you to examine<br />
texts by focusing on how language and culture shape identity and experience.<br />
With this perspective you can begin to understand how culture and language<br />
work to include and exclude individuals. This perspective seeks to illuminate<br />
the relationship between the individual and the group, between the stranger<br />
and the village, and between the dominant culture and the subordinate<br />
culture.<br />
Reflecting about yourself within a cultural context helps you gain an<br />
awareness of self as the alien, stranger, outsider or as the insider, member,<br />
or villager. Such reflection allows you to broaden your perspective to include<br />
a consciousness of self within a community.<br />
© 2011 College Board. All rights reserved.<br />
44 SpringBoard® English Textual Power Senior English
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