| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) |
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Teaching the new English |
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Teaching the new English.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the pedagogy of teaching African American women's writing / Gina Wisker -- Teaching The color purple / Gina Wisker -- Tune in and turn on : learning to listen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Victoria Bazin -- Teaching trauma : (neo- )slave narratives and cultural (re)memory / Deborah L. Madsen -- Teaching four African American female poets in context : Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E.W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez / Frenzella E. De Lancey -- "This crisis in the history of the Negro" : Contending forces at the nexus of debate / Joe Sutcliff Sanders -- (En)lightening the dark vision : redemption through storytelling in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Linda J. Holland-Toll, Angela R. Mullis -- When the rainbow is not enough : using African American literature to demystify race in a Caribbean tertiary environment / Paula Morgan -- Teaching African American women's literature in Australia : reading Toni Morrison in the Deep North / Carole Ferrier -- Postgraduate students working on African American women's writing : supervision and the research journey / Gina Wisker, Marion Treby -- Appendix I: Chronology of key publications and events -- Appendix II: Selective guide to further reading -- Appendix III: Key authors and works |
| Summary |
African American women's writing is taught worldwide. It has the ability to engage readers with values, emotions, history, rights, and issues to do with choice of form of expression, from realism and life writing to fantasy. This book engages with topical and experience-based practices of the teaching of African American women's writing worldwide. It includes invaluable essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, among others, and considers their appreciation in context in the US, UK, Australasia and the Caribbean, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It should be immensely useful for anyone teaching this popular and important body of literature at any level |
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"The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing not only provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by reading and studying the texts, but crucially they explore and demonstrate strategies for teaching African American women's writing which involve students with the texts, with the cultural, historical, political, gendered issues and with engaged critical reading practices. The book will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities, and adult education groups"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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American literature -- African American authors -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wisker, Gina, 1951-
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| ISBN |
9781137086471 |
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1137086475 |
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0230003486 |
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9780230003484 |
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9780230003460 |
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023000346X |
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