COD 2022 - D740
Webinar - Literary Evenings: "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" – a taste of Damon Galgut's The Promise (2021)
All literature lovers
2
sessions, start: 20-May
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2022
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 4400.00
ARS 4400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 4400.00
ARS 4400.00
Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 20 May 2022 | 05:30 pm | 07:00 pm |
2 | 27 May 2022 | 05:30 pm | 07:00 pm |
Facilitator/s
Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
All literature lovers
- To share the joys of reading fiction.
- To discuss a selection of excerpts from Damon Galgut’s The Promise.
- To exchange ideas on Galgut’s narrative techniques, his recurrent themes and his fictional universe.
- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of multiple possible readings of the novel.
- To discuss a selection of excerpts from Damon Galgut’s The Promise.
- To exchange ideas on Galgut’s narrative techniques, his recurrent themes and his fictional universe.
- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of multiple possible readings of the novel.
Damon Galgut’s The Promise (2021) revolves around four funerals. Each of the four sections of the novel mirrors and explores the social, cultural and economic changes in South Africa, from the atrocities of apartheid to Mandela’s “rainbow nation” and racial integration. Connecting all funerals is the promise made by the matriarch of the Swart family to Salome, the black maid, that she will own the house she lives in. This promise, unfulfilled for many years, triggers a series of conflicts among the three Swart children. Like Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, Anton Swart and his younger sisters Astrid and Amor must struggle with the shifting realities of their country to be able to break free from the burden of history.
- Reading of key sections of Damon Galgut’s The Promise and some excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on a selection of excerpts from the novel.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the text.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on a selection of excerpts from the novel.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the text.
Damon Galgut’s The Promise.
James Joyce’s Ulysses (excerpts).
James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (excerpts).
James Joyce’s Ulysses (excerpts).
James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (excerpts).