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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.
List of contents
Introduction; Masood Ashraf Raja PART I: THEORY 1. Gender, Knowledge, and Economy: Greg Mortenson, Turning Schools into Stones; Robin Truth Goodman 2. Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science; Mark Bracher 3. Learning to Be a Psychopath: The Pedagogy of the Corporation; Kenneth J. Saltman 4. Corporate World Literature: Neoliberalism and the Fate of the Humanities; Jeffrey R. Di Leo 5. Reading the "Other" in World Literature: Toward a Discourse of Unfamiliarity; Swaralipi Nandi 6. Pedagogy for Healing and Justice through Cambodian American Literature; Jonathan H. X. Lee and Mary Thi Pham 7. A Moving Pedagogy: Teaching Global Literature through Translation; Kyle Wanberg 8. "Re-worlding" in Tsitsi Dangaremba's Nervous Conditions ; Linda Daley 9. Teaching World Systems: How Critical Pedagogy Can Frame the Global; David B. Downing 10. Object Lessons: Material Cultural Approaches to Teaching Global Poetry; Hella Rose Bloom PART II: PRAXIS 11. A Gun and a Book: Teaching Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief and the Dogs (???? ???????) in a Time of Revolution and Occupation; Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 12. Magical Realism: A Gateway Out of America and into the World; Tessa Mellas 13. Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Teaching Origin Myths, Material Conditions, and "the Bible as Literature"; Hillary Stringer 14. Cycles of Opportunity: On the Value and Efficacy of Native American Literature in Teaching World Literature to Millennials; Marnie M. Sullivan 15. "The Speculation of Schoolboys": Confronting the Academy in Ulysses ; Matthew McKenzie Davis 16. Reaching for the Other in Teaching Aleksandar Hemon's "A Coin"; Zach VandeZande 17. Afterword; Masood Ashraf Raja, Hillary Stringer, and Zach VandeZande
About the author
Robin Goodman, Florida State University, USA
Mark Bracher, Kent State University, USA
Kenneth Saltman, DePaul University, USA
Sophia McClennen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
Swaralipi Nandi, Kent State University, USA
Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University, USA
Mary Thi Pham, San Francisco State University, USA
Kyle Wanberg, University of California, USA
Linda Daley, RMIT University, USA
David B. Downing, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Hella Rose Bloom, University of North Texas, USA
Matthew Davis, University of North Texas, USA
Jessica Hindman, University of North Texas, USA
Elishia Heiden, University of North Texas, USA
Tessa Mellas, University of Cincinnati, USA
Marnie M. Sullivan, Mercyhurst College, USA
Summary
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.
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"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
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"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
