Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

Informationen zum Autor Edvige Giunta is professor of English at New Jersey City University and coeditor of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy . She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Italian American Writers on New Jersey . Her memoir and poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies. Kathleen Zamboni McCormick is professor of literature and pedagogy at Purchase College. Her books include The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English , which won the MLA's Mina Shaughnessy Award, and Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses (coedited with Erwin Steinberg. Klappentext Provides an appreciation of the importance of Italian American texts in the study of American culture. The volume opens by outlining the history of Italians in the US and exploring the potential of literature and the arts to enable the recovery of a forgotten, even repressed, historical past. Over thirty scholars and teachers then present innovative ways of teaching Italian American texts and integrating them with other texts in courses ranging from American literature and history to multiethnic and women's studies.

Product details

• Authors: Edvige (EDT)/ McCormick Giunta
• Assisted by: Edvige Giunta (Editor), Kathleen Zamboni Mccormick (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2010
• EAN: 9781603290661
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-066-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Options for Teaching; Options for Teaching (Hardcove; Options for Teaching 28; Options for Teaching; Options for Teaching 28
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology