Synopses & Reviews
Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature enables a better pedagogical praxis by offering both wide-ranging theoretical explorations and results grounded in experience. Part One of the book focuses on various aspects of critical pedagogy and its importance for teaching world literature by offering ten carefully selected chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the fields of critical pedagogy, world literature, and postcolonial studies. Part Two of the book offers six brief, praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level. This comprehensive theoretical and praxis-driven engagement shows how teaching world literature can be accomplished with the goal of changing and transforming the world.
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Review
"This brilliant collection of essays not only breathes new life into the field of critical pedagogy, but leaves this reader wanting more." -David Gabbard, Bilingual Education Department, Boise State University, USA
Synopsis
In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level.
About the Author
Masood Ashraf Raja is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas, USA. He is the author of Constructing Pakistan (2010) and the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.
Hillary Stringer is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of North Texas, USA, where she is a Teaching Fellow, the Production Editor of the American Literary Review, and a coordinating editor for Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. Her fiction has appeared in Synergies, the Tidal Basin Review, and Microchondria, an anthology of "short-short" stories compiled by the Harvard Book Store.
Zach VandeZande is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas, USA. He has published several short works of fiction as well as a novel, Apathy and Paying Rent.
Table of Contents
PART I
1. Pedagogical Fanonism; Robin Goodman
2. Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Things Fall Apart; Dr. Mark Bracher
3. Globetrotting Psychopaths: The Pedagogy of Corporate Selfhood; Kenneth Saltman
4. We are Not the World: Challenges to the Teaching of World Literature; Sophia McClennen
5. Corporate World Literature; Jeffrey R. Di Leo
6. The Global 'other': World Literature in the Context of Critical Cosmopolitanism; Swaralipi Nandi
7. Pedagogy for Healing and Justice through Cambodian American Literature; Jonathan H. X. Lee and Mary Thi Pham
8. Translation as Literature: Teaching Global Literature through Translation; Kyle Wanberg
9. Worlding of a world - the Lives of Girls and Women in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions; Linda Daley
10. Teaching World Systems: How Critical Pedagogy Can Frame the Global; David B. Downing
11. Object Lessons: Teaching Empathy through the Artifact in Comparative Literature, Material-Culturalist Approaches to Teaching World Literature; Hella Rose Bloom
12. Ulysses and Cultural Dissent; Matthew Davis
13. Teaching Palestine: A Poem, a Novel, and a Film; Masood Raja
PART II: TEACHING NOTES
14. Introduction; Hillary Stringer and Zach VandeZande
15. Jenny Caneen-Raja
16. Jessica Hindman
17. Elishia Heiden
18. Metaphor in Magical Realism: A Gateway out of America and into the World; Tessa Mellas
19. Hillary Stringer
20. Zach VandeZande
21. Cycles of Opportunity: On the Value and Efficacy of Native American Literature in Teaching World Literature to Millennials; Dr. Marnie M. Sullivan