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		African American Literature Collection The African American Literature Collection contains five Approaches to Teaching volumes (click on each title to get book information). MLA members receive a 30% discount on Approaches collections. ... more info $79.00
		Afro-American Literature The Reconstruction of Instruction This book is devoted exclusively to critical discussions of Afro-American literature and focuses specifically on critical issues that are especially pertinent to designing courses in Afro-American literature. ... more info Editor(s): Dexter Fisher, Robert B. Stepto $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, with sales exceeding three million copies, is one of the most widely read works of contemporary fiction. A classic of African literature, it is taught... more info Editor(s): Bernth Lindfors $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass One of the most frequently taught slave narratives, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is assigned in many courses, including American and African American literature, African American studies, women's... more info Editor(s): James C. Hall $19.75
		Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika "A treasure trove and a valuable resource for students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields." Margaret Waller, French Review "Professors and students in French will particularly want to... more info Editor(s): Mary Ellen Birkett, Christopher Rivers Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works "A worthwhile pick for literary collections." Midwest Book Review "The strength of this volume is that it presents Hurston's work from a variety of perspectives and thus conveys to teachers... more info Editor(s): John Lowe Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin Although rarely found on college syllabi just two decades ago, Uncle Tom's Cabin is (according to an MLA survey) one of the most frequently named additions to nineteenth-century American literature... more info Editor(s): Elizabeth Ammons, Susan Belasco Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son Richard Wright predicted that Bigger Thomas, his most powerful literary creation, would become "a symbolic figure of American life, a figure who would hold within him the prophecy of our... more info Editor(s): James A. Miller Paperback ($19.75) Hardcover ($37.50)
		Essential Encounters Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story... more info Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury Translator(s): Cheryl Toman $6.95
		Literary Research Guide An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies (Fifth Edition) Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 by Choice and as one of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the... more info Author(s): James L. Harner $37.50
		Ourika: An English Translation John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern... more info Author(s): Claire de Duras Translator(s): John Fowles $8.95
		Ourika: The Original French Text Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during... more info Author(s): Claire de Duras Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Margaret Waller $8.95
		Reading Sites Social Difference and Reader Response Reading Sites explores how social differences condition and shape reader response. Bringing to the fore a key but long-unexplored issue, this volume extends reader-response theory and unites it with more... more info Editor(s): Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Elizabeth A. Flynn Paperback ($25.00) Hardcover ($40.00)
		Rencontres essentielles Published in 1969, Rencontres essentielles is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story... more info Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury Editor(s): Cheryl Toman $6.95
		Sarah An English Translation "This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone... more info Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Translator(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish Paperback ($9.95)
		Sarah The Original French Text "This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone... more info Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Editor(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish Paperback ($9.95)
		Teaching the African Novel "This is an important book, one that is going to become an indispensable theoretical and practical guide for teachers of the African novel and indeed of African literature in general."... more info Editor(s): Gaurav Desai Paperback ($25.00) Cloth ($40.00)
		Approaches to Teaching Ellison's Invisible Man Teachers of Invisible Man differ about which aspect of Ralph Ellison's novel deserves the most emphasis. According to Susan Resneck Parr, a coeditor of this volume, "some [teachers] argue that... more info Editor(s): Susan Resneck Parr, Pancho Savery Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)
		Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison Teachers started assigning the novels of Toni Morrison long before she won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature and before there was a significant body of secondary literature on the... more info Editor(s): Nellie Y. McKay, Kathryn Earle Paperback ($19.75) Cloth ($37.50)