English Teachers' Accounts

ISBN-13: 9780367704193 / Miękka / 2023 / 206 str.

Opis

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India’s colonial legacy, many decades after liberalization.

Spis treści

Introduction

Acknowledgments

1. The Haunted Classroom: The Afterlife of Allusions

2. Teaching Cymbeline During India’s #MeToo Moment

3. English, Human Rights and Literature in the Postcolonial Classroom

4. Critical Pedagogy: Theorizing the Literatures of Northeast India

5. The Fissured Surface of the Text: Reading the Gaps and Silences in A Passage to India

6. Cultural Intersections and Nature Writing: Teaching Nature Poetry

7. Traversing Distances and Differences: Teaching Kanthapura

8. Pedagogy, Performance and Transgression: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

9. Teaching postcoloniality through The Grass is Singing

10. Uncomfortable Questions and Answers: Teaching Death in Venice

11. A Portrait of the Researcher as a Young Teacher: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the Classroom

O autorze

Nandana Dutta is Professor of English at the University of Gauhati, India. Her teaching and research interests are in American studies, gender, postcolonial theory and literature, travel writing and the discipline of English in India. Her publications include Questions of Identity in Assam: Location, Migration, Hybridity (2012), American Literature (in the ‘Literary Contexts’ series, 2016) and Mothers, Daughters and Others: Representation of Women in the Folk Narratives of Assam (edited with an Introduction, 2013), among others.