COD 2014 - G749b

Reading Workshop. Crossing over: bridges into otherness

All Literature lovers

2 sessions, start: 04-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2014
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
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Non affiliate
ARS 300.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 04 August 2014 06:00 pm 08:00 pm
2 25 August 2014 06:00 pm 08:00 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 contemporary fiction through the works of some of its most representative writers.
- To discuss and exchange ideas on the short stories.
- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of the meaning of texts in which encounters with otherness (in culture, in gender, in ideology) are explored.
In Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts (2000) Bill Ashcroft states that the existence of "the other" is crucial in defining "normality" and in "locating one's own place in the world". The construction of "the other" is thus central in the construction of the Self. It has long been known that literature allows us to enter consciousnesses and forms of conceptualizing reality different from our own. The stories to be analysed in these two sessions are attempts to build fictional bridges into otherness: some of these bridges collapse under the weight of intolerance and prejudice; others come to dead-ends and are left unfinished; yet others take both characters and readers over towards visions of the world that are alien and familiar at the same time, disquieting and beautiful, unsettling and liberating.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the texts.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the texts.
- Reading of key sections of the short stories to raise awareness of the ways in which the various authors explore the encounters between selfhood and otherness.
Session 1:
• Auster, Paul. "Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story"
• Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Unaccustomed Earth"

Session 2:
• Achebe, Chinua. "Dead Men's Path".
• Rhys, Jean. "The Day They Burnt the Books".
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