Inventing the Heroine of a Thousand Faces: a Literary Creation Didactic Proposal
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Instructional materials, creative writing, gender rolesAbstract
This didactic proposal exemplifies the use of creative writing as a way to approach gender studies, through the creation of a fantasy hero. The activity offers the possibility of working both the apparent and underlaying conflicts, where gender roles can offer different answers and redefine narratological structures. The students work on their own literary creation to define their literary expectations and the predominant conflicts that appear in fantasy and fiction stories in their social and ideological context. The contrast of their own textual creations with the analyses of textual and audiovisual examples from fantasy and science fiction by female authors and including female characters offers the possibility of generating a contrastive and constructive space, which also links to educational competences and facilitates a comparatist approach to literary criticism.
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