Teaching Black Speculative Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Equity, Justice, and Antiracism
Redaktion: Hinton, Kaavonia; Chandler, Karen Michele

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers innovative approaches to teaching Black speculative fiction (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror) in ways that will inspire middle and high school students to think, talk, and write about issues of equity, justice, and antiracism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003859888
• Artikelnr.: 69854566

Autorenporträt

KaaVonia Hinton is a professor in the Teaching & Learning Department at Old Dominion University and the author of many articles and books about literature for youth. She is also the co-editor, with Lucy E. Bailey, of the book series, Research in Life Writing and Education (Information Age Publishing). Karen Michele Chandler is an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville and the author of many articles on African American, American, and youth literature. She is the co-editor, with Michelle H. Martin, of a special issue of International Research in Children's Literature on Black spaces. Her book, Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom, is forthcoming in 2024.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Black Speculative Fiction as "Anchor, Compass, and Sail"
KaaVonia Hinton and Karen Michele Chandler
1. Exploring the Complexities of Environmental Disaster, Justice, and
Racism in Ninth Ward
Julianna Lopez Kershen
2. The Responsibility to Remember: India Hill Brown's The Forgotten Girl
Saba Khan Vlach
3. Reading and Engaging with Kacen Callender's Moonflower through
Intersectional Pedagogies
Meghna Prabir
4. Illusions of Identity: Counternarratives in B. B. Alston's Amari and the
Night Brothers
Jessica Gottbrath
5. The Power of Voice and Choice: Examining Blackness, Black Girlhood, and
Identity in A Song Below Water
Christian M. Hines and Jenell Igeleke Penn
6. Creative Disruptions: Protest Art and Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer
Prince
Amanda M. Greenwell
7. Resilience, Resistance, and Healing in Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood
and Bone
Danielle Kubasko Sullivan
8. Teaching Counterstorytelling in High School using Tomi Adeyemi's
Children of Blood and Bone
Tabitha Lowery
9. Using a Historical Lens to Examine Agency in Mother of the Sea
Tiffany A. Flowers
10. The Monster or the (Wo)Man in Victor LaValle's Destroyer
Jasmine H. Wade
11. Race in the Zombie Apocalypse: Teaching Justina Ireland's Dread Nation
Michael Patrick Hart
12. Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon: Classroom Projects from an Animal Rights
Perspective
Rosa Maria Moreno-Redondo
13. "Slavery Was a Long Slow Process of Dulling": Octavia Butler's Kindred
as a Medium for Teaching Empathy, Social Justice, and Antiracism
Colin Enriquez
14. Slavery was a choice?: Lessons from Kindred by Octavia Butler
Mercy Agyepong
15. "I Serve the Spirits and I Heal the Living": Communities of Care as
Sites of Resistance in Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring
Justin Cosner
16. Understanding by Design with Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber
Toni S. Stevens
Resources
Index