COD 2018 - G946

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Reading Arundhati Roy's "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"

All literature lovers

1 sesiones, inicia: 08-Sep

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Ciclo: 2018
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 08 Septiembre 2018 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Capacitador/es

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 Arundhati Roy’s latest novel, her narrative techniques, her recurrent themes and her fictional universe.

- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of the meaning of the novel.
Set in India during some of its most turbulent years in recent history, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness weaves together the life stories of a transgender woman (a hijra), a rebellious architect, and her landlord who is a supervisor in the Indian intelligence service. Against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir, the novel explores human beings’ capacity to hate and destroy one another but also the possibility of establishing profound human bonds across the divides of ethnicity, religion, caste, social class, ideology and gender.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the text.

- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the text.

- Reading of key sections of the novel to appreciate its narrative power.
Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)
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