Teaching Black - The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature

A Vital Collection that Brings Together Key Texts from Literary Ancestors and Contemporary Writers

About the author

Ana-Maurine Lara (Editor)
Ana-Maurine Lara is a national award-winning novelist, poet, and scholar. She is the author of Erzulie's Skirt, Kohnjehr Woman, and When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People. Her academic books include Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty and Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic. Lara's work focuses on questions of Black and Indigenous freedom.

drea brown (Editor)
drea brown is a poet-scholar and author of dear girl: a reckoning, winner of the Gold Line Press 2014 chapbook prize. brown's forthcoming book, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women is concerned with haunting and grief, and the impact of these states of being on Black women's lives and literature.

Summary

Presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers with practical advice and historical and theoretical questions about teaching.

Product details

• Assisted by: Drea Brown (Editor), Ana Lara (Editor), Ana-Maurine Lara (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780822946953
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4695-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology