COD 2024 - D1048

Webinar - Cultural Programme: Literary Evenings: "A Taste of Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022)"

All literature lovers

2 sessions, start: 18-Oct

Course detail

Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 30000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 30000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 18 October 2024 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
2 25 October 2024 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Daniel Ferreyra Fernández

Daniel Ferreyra Fernández graduated from ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González” as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in 1998. He specialized in Contemporary Literature at ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González” (1999 – 2005). Since 2001, he has been teaching courses and workshops on Contemporary Literature at “Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa” (AACI) and at the British Art Centre (BAC). He currently teaches English Language IV at IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, ENS en Lenguas Vivas “Sofía B. de Spangenberg” and at ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González”. He also teaches IGCSE Literature and English B (International Baccalaureate) courses at Colegio Palermo Chico. From 2016 to 2018 he was the Vice Dean at IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, where he is currently the Head of the English Department at the Teacher Training college. He has been a facilitator at ESSARP since 2012.
All literature lovers
-To share the joys of reading fiction.
-To discuss and exchange ideas on Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, his narrative techniques, his recurrent themes and his fictional universe.
-To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the exploration of multiple readings of the novel.
Set in Sri Lanka in the turbulent 1980s, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida centers on a dead photographer who is given a week (“seven moons”) to solve the mystery of his own death. During this time, he travels between the afterlife and the real world, trying to recover a set of photographs that expose the atrocities of the Sri Lankan Civil War and might have been the cause of his untimely death. Mixing political satire, magic realism and crime fiction, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida offers a stark picture of Sri Lanka’s bloody past and an exploration of our very human desire for love, empathy and redemption.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022).
-Reading of key sections of the novel.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the text.
Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022).
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