Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Now at sixty-four volumes, the MLA's popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to the teaching of the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods of presentation that they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.
Synopsis
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-174) and indexes.
Table of Contents
Tracing and erasing : race and pedagogy in The Bluest Eye /Rafael Pâerez-Torres --Teaching controversy : The bluest eye in the multicultural classroom /Kathryn Earle --Raked with wonder : a white instructor teaches Sula /Toni A. H. McNaron --Beyond bitterness of history : teaching Beloved /Carolyn C. Denard --Marginality and community in Beloved /Sharon P. Holland, Michael Awkward --Authority, literacy, and modernism in The bluest eye /Thomas H. Fick, Eva Gold --Song of Solomon : modernism in the Afro-American studies classroom / Sandra Adell --Flying home : folklore, intertexuality, and Song of Solomon /James C. Hall --Tar Baby : philosophizing blackness /Madelyn Jablon --Using history as artifact to situate Beloved's unknown woman : Margaret Garner /Angelita Reyes --Jazz : Morrison and the music of tradition /Craig Werner --Morrison on Morrison : using interviews to teach Morrison /Terry Otten --Sula : imagery, figurative language, and symbols /Elizabeth B. House --Reading in the dark ; knowledge and vision in Song of Solomon /Linda J. Krumholz --Jazz : from music to literature /Anthony J. Berret --Laundering head of whitewash : mimicry and resistance /Gurleen Grewal --African-based reading of Sula /Gay Wilentz --Songs of ancestors : family in Song of Solomon /Keith E. Byerman --Telling stories : a cultural studies approach to Tar Baby /Marilyn Sanders Mobley --Teaching Tar Baby /Ann Jurecic, Arnold Rampersad --Morrison's Jazz : a knowing so deep /Judylyn S. Ryan.