AnnaMarie Christiansen

Cultural Politics in the Literature Classroom

Essentialism and Cultural Politics in the Literature Classroom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first part of this book looks at how the
instructor s identity, whether students construct it
as academically or culturally authoritative or both,
plays an active role in the interpretation of
multicultural literary texts. To encourage students
direct engagement with a text and its world, outlined
here is a pedagogy that temporarily displaces
teacherly authority so that students build the
knowledge necessary to analyze a literary work. This
practice encourages students to use their own
experiences, the social text of the classroom and the
context of a work to build meaning from and about a
literary text.
The second part of this book examines the mixed-race
characters in the novels of Toni Morrison. The
characters of Soaphead Church (The Bluest Eye),
Golden Gray (Jazz) and Pat Best (Paradise) revise the
tragic mulatto stereotype found in nineteenth century
U.S. literature. Like Pauline Hopkins, author of
turn-of-the-century race melodramas, Morrison
complicates notions of mulatto identity. Further, as
hybrid subjects, each character literally manifests
W.E.B. Du Bois s notion of the color line and
transforms that narrow space into one of creativity
and autonomy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 123g
• ISBN-13: 9783639091595
• ISBN-10: 3639091590
• Artikelnr.: 25620988

Autorenporträt

AnnaMarie Christiansen received her Doctor of Arts in English
from Idaho State University. Her research interests include Oceanic
literatures, African-American literature, cultural studies and
critical pedagogy. Born in Australia and raised on the U.S.
mainland, Dr. Christiansen is tribally affiliated with the Nga
Puhi of Aotearoa/New Zealand.