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Call for Essay Proposals for Volume on Teaching Latino/a Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Latino/a Literature, to be edited by Frederick Luis Aldama. The volume will offer models for teaching Latino/a literature with a focus on the complex array of formal tools (e.g., code switching, temporal and spatial compressions and expansions, voice, perspective, and segmentation) that interplay with content (e.g., theme, setting, and characterization) to make Latino/a literature at once a unique body of literature and one that participates fully in the making of a planetary republic of letters. The volume will offer teachers pedagogical models to show how formal techniques give shape to content in Latino/a novels (including graphic novels), short stories (including flash fiction), young adult and children’s fiction, plays, and poetry. The essays will consider established and emerging genres, modes, and formats to address not only particular discussions and debates in the teaching of Latino/a literature but also the importance of historical period and region in the making and consuming of Latino/a literature, taking into account the worldly dimension of Latino/a letters. The essays will keep in mind the integration of teaching methods and concepts into a variety of courses and teaching environments as well as the rationale for choice of primary and secondary course materials. If you are interested in contributing an essay (from 3,000 to 5,000 words), please send a detailed proposal to Frederick Luis Aldama (aldama.1@osu.edu) by 1 August 2013.
Note that if you plan to quote from student writing in your essay, you must obtain written permission from your students to do so. Proposed essays should not be previously published.
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