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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 20% discount on Approaches collections. |
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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.
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Editor(s): Dexter Fisher, Robert B. Stepto
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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...
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Editor(s): Susan Resneck Parr, Pancho Savery
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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...
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Editor(s): Elizabeth Ammons, Susan Belasco
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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...
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Editor(s): James A. Miller
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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...
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Author(s): James L. Harner
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Power, Race, and Gender in Academe
Strangers in the Tower?
The civil rights movement of the 1960s and the affirmative action programs enacted in the 1970s held great promise for people of color, women, and gays and lesbians seeking...
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Editor(s): Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Maria Herrera-Sobek
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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...
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Editor(s): Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Elizabeth A. Flynn
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Redefining American Literary History
Redefining American Literary History presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by "a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways...
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Editor(s): A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
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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...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Translator(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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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...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Editor(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates
Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates shows readers how theory can, in the words of William E. Cain, enable teachers and students "to illuminate anew the structure of texts, to write...
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Editor(s): Dianne F. Sadoff, William E. Cain
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Teaching North American Environmental Literature
(Options for Teaching 22)
"More than a study of nature writing, this collection of essays examines the influences that have shaped the field, such as African American, American Indian, Canadian, and Chicano literature." Book...
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Editor(s): Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, Fred Waage
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Teaching the Literatures of Early America
In this era of shifting geopolitical boundaries, numerous books and articles question what "American" literature is, what "the literary" is, and how what is called early American literature can best...
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Editor(s): Carla Mulford
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