Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415916950 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str.

Maryemma Graham;Sharon Pineault-Burke;Marianna White Davis

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The absence of one of American writings' oldest traditions in the canon has produced a body of literature not only alienating to a large part of the population, but one which has impoverished itself of a broader representation of humanity. This book is written by teachers interested in bringing that traditional African American literature into the classroom. Documented here is the learning process that these educators experienced themselves as they read and discussed the stories and pedagogical strategies which would engage their students. In following these discussions between teachers and academics, one should be able to see how the teaching and learning of African American literature can be an exciting and challenging way of confronting and questioning pervasive cultural assumptions about race and gender. In this way, all students can bring their personal experiences and insights into the classroom. Given today's social landscape, conventional frameworks for teaching literature must be seriously revised to accommodate and address a growing multicultural population.

This book is written by teachers interested in bringing African American literature into the classroom. Documented here is the learning process that these educators experienced themselves as they read and discussed the stories & pedagogical.

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Introduction: Maryemma Graham -- When Teaching MattersChapter 1. William L. Andews -- Narrating SlaveryChapter 2. Katharine Driscoll Coon -- A Rip in the Tent: Teaching (African) American LiteratureChapter 3. Jane Skelton -- Multiple Voices, Multiple Identities: Teaching African American LiteratureChapter 4. Leslie Catherine Sanders --Little Ham's Self-Invention: Teaching Langston HughesChapter 5. Constance Borab -- Freeing the Female Voice: New Models and Materials for TeachingChapter 6. Thadious M. Davis -- A Female Face: Or, Masking the Masculine in African American Fiction Before Richard WrightChapter 7. Bernard W. Bell -- Voices of Double Consciousness in African American Fiction: Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West and Richard WrightChapter 8. Jerry W. Ward -- To Shatter Innocence: Teaching African American PoetryChapter 9. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg --The Way We Do the Things We Do: Enunciation and Effect in the Multicultural Classroom Chapter 10. Marianna White Davis -- Teaching Against the Odds Chapter 11. Ann Louise Keating -- Interrogating Whiteness, (De)Constructing Race Chapter 12. Trudier Harris -- Lying Through Our Teeth? The Quagmire of Cultural Diversity Chapter 13. Sharon Pineault-Burke and Jennifer Novak -- Selected Bibliography of African American Literature

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African-American Studies and is founder and Director of the Project on the History of Black Writing at Northeastern University. Sharon Pineault-Burke is Coordinator of Resource Development and Outreach for the Project on the History of Black Writing and teaches in the writing program at Northeastern University. Marianna White Davis is Special Assistant to the President and Adjunct Professor of English at Benedict College, South Carolina.