Latino/a Literature in the Classroom Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Teaching

In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods to the teaching of the novel, short story, plays, poetry, autobiography, testimonial, comic book, children and young adult literature, film, performance art, and multi-media digital texts, among others. The essays provide conceptual vocabularies and tools to help teachers design courses that pay attention to:

• Issues of form across a range of storytelling media
• Issues of content such as theme and character
• Issues of historical periods, linguistic communities, and regions
• Issues of institutional classroom settings
The volume innovatively adds to and complicates the broader humanities curriculum by offering new possibilities for pedagogical practice.




Über den Autor / die Autorin












Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University, USA, where he is also Director of the Latino Studies Program and founder and director of Latino and Latin American Studies Space for Enrichment and Research (LASER).





Zusammenfassung

In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods to the teaching of the novel, short story, plays, poetry, autobiography, testimonial, comic book, children and young adult literature, film, performance art, and multi-media digital texts, among others. The essays provide conceptual vocabularies and tools to help teachers design courses that pay attention to:


• Issues of form across a range of storytelling media
• Issues of content such as theme and character
• Issues of historical periods, linguistic communities, and regions
• Issues of institutional classroom settings
The volume innovatively adds to and complicates the broader humanities curriculum by offering new possibilities for pedagogical practice.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Frederick Luis Aldama, FREDERICK LU ALDAMA, Frederick Luis (The Ohio State University Aldama, Frederick Luis (Distinguished University P Aldama
• Mitarbeit: Frederick Luis Aldama (Herausgeber), Frederick Luis (The Ohio State University Aldama (Herausgeber), Aldama Frederick Luis (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2015
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• EAN: 9780415724203
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72420-3
• Anzahl Seiten: 380
• Themen: Puerto Rico, Mexico, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Ethnic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Cuba, transnational, Literature - Classics / Criticism, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Latina, Classroom, Latino, Oscar Wao, Literary studies: general, Teaching of a specific subject, Grand Theft Auto, Chicana Feminism, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, Spanish language, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, Teaching Literature, latino literature, Young Man, achy obejas, main character, Zoot Suit, Chicano Movement, mexican american literature, La Pocha Nostra, California State University, zoot suit riots, Carmelita Tropicana, Se Lo, Devil’s Highway, Central American Literatures, Dangerous Border Crossers, Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, El Pachuco, Latino/a Literature, Mexican American Studies Program, Performalist Pedagogy, Latino/a theory, Hispanophone Caribbean, El Líder