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Informationen zum Autor Brady Harrison is a professor of English at University of Montana. He is the author of The Dying Athabaskan and Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature. Randi Lynn Tanglen is an associate professor of English and director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching at Austin College. Klappentext The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entrée into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field. Zusammenfassung The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entrée into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Teaching Western American Literature Brady Harrison, University of Montana, and Randi Lynn Tanglen, Austin College Part 1. Teaching the Literary Wests 1. Teaching the Popular Western in the Second-Level Writing Course Chadwick Allen, University of Washington 2. Quirky Little Things and Wilderness Letters: Using Wallace Stegner to Teach Cultural Studies and the Responsibilities of Citizenship Melody Graulich, Utah State University 3. Teaching the Black West Kalenda Eaton, University of Oklahoma, and Michael K. Johnson, University of Maine–Farmington Part 2. Affect, Indigeneity, Gender 4. Gender, Affect, Environmental Justice, and Indigeneity in the Classroom Amy T. Hamilton, Northern Michigan University 5. Teaching Queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous Literatures, or The West Has Always Been Queer Lisa Tatonetti, Kansas State University 6. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Gender in Western American Literature Amanda R. Gradisek and Mark C. Rogers, Walsh University Part 3. Place and Regionality 7. Moving Beyond the Traditional Classroom and So Far from God: Place-Based Learning in the U.S. Southwest Karen R. Roybal, Colorado College 8. Quotidian Wests: Exploring Regionality through the Everyday Nancy S. Cook, University of Montana 9. Western Writers in the Field O. Alan Weltzien, University of Montana Western 10. Placing the Pacific Northwest on the Literary Map: Teaching Ella Rhoads Higginson’s Mariella, of Out-West Laura Laffrado, Western Washington University Part 4. Hemispheric/Global Wests 11. National, Transnational, and Human Rights Frames for Teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don Tereza M. Szeghi, University of Dayton 12. Able-Bodies, Difference, and Citizenship in the West: Teaching James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk in a Global Context Andrea M. Dominguez, DeVry University, San Diego 13. Teaching Western Canadian Literature in the Croatian Context: A Case Study Vanja Poli¿, University of Zagreb Contributors Index...
