Overview

Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers have constructed workable models of teaching literature in multicultural classrooms. The authors provide an interdisciplinary dialogue on the setbacks, solutions, silences, and successes that often occur in classes of multicultural literature. They all take the stance that definitions of literacy and literature originate as much outside the classroom as within it. With the inclusion of essays by writers themselves-a feature provided by no other book on this subject-the authors offer a unique vocalization of the nationalistic, economic, empowering, and moral purposes that reading and writing serve. The book also includes a current guide to selected resources in multicultural literature, in hopes of encouraging and facilitating instructors in the transformation of their own literature courses into multicultural ones.

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Author:   Suzanne M. Miller ,  Barbara McCaskill
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9780791416464

ISBN 10:   0791416461
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   05 October 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for Difference Suzanne M. Miller and Barbara McCaskill Part I Defining Difference: Perspectives on Writing Literature 1. Seeing and Listening: A Poet's Literacies Ron Welburn 2. Liberation Literacy: Literacy and Empowerment in Marginalized American Texts Valerie Babb 3. Literacy, Literature, and the Liberation of the American Bluesvilles: (On Writing Our World into Being) Reggie Young 4. A Stamp on the Envelope Upside Down Means Love; or, Literature and Literacy in the Multicultural Classroom Barbara McCaskill Part II Making Space: Perspectives on Writing Policy 5. The Ideology of Canons and Cultural Concerns in the Literature Curriculum Alan C. Purves 6. Finding a Common Ground: Integrating Texts and Traditions Suzanne K. Sutherland 7. Multicultural Literacy and Literature: The Perspective of School Policy Gregory A. Morris 8. Reading against the Cultural Grain Phillip C. Gonzales 9. Some Notes on the Canon and Multiculturalism Catharine R. Stimpson Part III Making Space for Difference: Perspectives on Teaching 10. Multicultural Literacy and Literature: The Teacher's Perspective Violet J. Harris 11. Questions of Pedagogy and Multiculturalism Alpana Sharma Knippling 12. Multicultural Literacy in a Middle School Writing Workshop Hasna Muhammad 13. Literature about Asians and Asian Americans: Implications for Elementary Classrooms Junko Yokota 14. Why a Dialogic Pedagogy? Making Space for Possible Worlds Suzanne M. Miller Appendix: Selected Resources for Multicultural Education Expanded, Researched, and Annotated by Kathleen Sims About the Editors Contributors Index

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I like the tone of expectation and hope, the immediacy of the essays. - Virginia Spencer Carr, Georgia State University

Author Information

Suzanne M. Miller is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York, Albany. Barbara McCaskill is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.

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