Dimensions
This book is out of print.
This anthology encompasses distinctly different kinds of writing and encourages students to explore various aspects of written and visual language. The material in Dimensions focuses on gender roles and stereotypes, changing personal relationships, large-scale political change and first-person accounts of living under political oppression.
It is an anthology that probes deep into the human experience, bringing together provocative visual texts – such as ‘Windsurfing Bali’ and ‘The Holy State of Matrimony’ – and the poetry of Vikram Seth. Moving, personal letters and interviews from Cambodia, Korea and Thailand shed light on past times.
- Index
- Dimensions: Revolutionary Cultural Change
Dimensions: Revolutionary Cultural Change and its Effect upon Writers
In this activity sheet students will examine the role of writers in effecting or commenting on community change, the dilemmas they face and consequences that can arise.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- construct meanings from a range of texts--some complex in construction and subject matter--and justify these meanings with detailed and well chosen evidence from the text
- consider the relationships between texts, contexts, readers, listeners and writers
- write sustained texts that are complex in purpose and subject matter, with formal language and construction
- construct spoken texts for structured formal situations and choose appropriate strategies to present them in a formal situation.
Suggested Approach
Encourage students to work in groups so they can share the task of selecting and collecting material, and drafting and refining their prepared speeches or articles.
The following website contains a list of Vietnamese dissident literature available in English:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarly/Duffy_VN_Resources.html#Books
