COD 2009 - G488a

Reading Group on Contemporary Literature: "Life-Writing"

Advanced speakers of English, lovers of reading.

1 sessions, start: 24-Oct

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Susana Gullco Groisman
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 24 October 2009 10:00 am 12:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Susana Gullco Groisman

She graduated with distinction in British History and Literature from the Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González" and was a lecturer in Contemporary British Literature in her alma mater institution for forty years (having gone through competition to obtain tenure in 1975). She has been a guest speaker at numerous educational centres in our country. She is the former Head of the English Department at the I.S.P."J. V. González" and former President of APIBA. At present she belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre.
Advanced speakers of English, lovers of reading.
- To share the joys of reading and exchanging different points of view.

- To explore texts where authors write about their life or others do, as there has recently been an enormous interest in life-writing (and reading). Excerpts from auto/biographies and memoirs will be available.
- Margaret Atwood's speech delivered at Hay-on-Wye in 1995 where she speaks about her life and her literary creation, especially as a poet.

- Lorna Sage's biography of Angela Carter.

- Edward Said's memories of childhood and adolescence.

- Barack Obama's "story of race and inheritance" in excerpts from one of his books.


(These excerpts will be available for participants as from the first week in June 2009)
Group discussion and theoretical comments by facilitator when needed.
- Atwood, Margaret (1995) Speech delivered in Hay-on-Wye.

- Said, Edward. "Self-consciousness" in Granta, Autumn 1997.

- Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter in Granta, Autumn 1992.

- Obama, Barack (2004) (First published 1995) Dreams from my Father, Three Rivers Press.
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