Geraldine Heng

Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures is a guide to the terra incognita of the global literature classroom. It should be possible for faculty and graduate instructors to take this Element and begin teaching its sample syllabus right away.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009633048
• ISBN-10: 100963304X
• Artikelnr.: 73310563

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: An Experiment in Learning - and Teaching - Early Global
Literatures and Cultures; 2. Why Teach Early Global Literatures and
Cultures?; 3. Organizing a Course, and a Scaffold of Questions in Search of
Answers; 4. What Should We Teach? Two Dozen Texts from Which to Extract a
Possible Syllabus; 5. What Interconnects the Early World of AfroEurasia?
What Does that Early World Look like? Teaching The Vinland Sagas, Sundiata:
An Epic of Old Mali, and Ibn Fadlan's Mission to the Volga as Global Texts;
6. Encountering the Other, or Slaves, Race, Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
in a World of Differences: Teaching 'The Slave of MS. H.6,' selected
documents from India Traders of the Middle Ages, Amitav Ghosh's In an
Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale, and Kamaluddin
Abdul-Razzaq Samarqandi's Mission to Calicut and Vijayanagar; 7. Oceans of
Stories, and Island Worlds: Teaching Buzurg ibn Shahriyar's Book of the
Wonders of India, and Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi's Accounts of India and China,
with the Malay Annals; 8. The Globalism of Pax Mongolica: Teaching the
Secret History of the Mongols and Marco Polo-Rustichello of Pisa's
Description of the World; 9. The Role/s of Students in the Early Global
Literature Classroom: Taking Ownership of the Course, Research, and Team
Projects.