Teaching African American Women's Writing

Teaching African American Women's Writing

The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education groups as well as teachers involved in teaching in schools to A level.

This book engages with topical and experience-based practices of the teaching of African American women's writing in the US, UK, Australasia and Caribbean, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels

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Edited By Gina Wisker

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Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction to Teaching African American Women's Writing; G.Wisker
Teaching The Color Purple ; G.Wisker
Tune in and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God ; V.Bazin
Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory; D.L.Madsen
Teaching Four African-American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez; F.E.De Lancey
'This Crisis in the History of the Negro': Contending Forces at the Nexus of Debate; J.S.Sanders
(En)lightening the Dark Vision: Redemption through Storytelling in Toni Morrison's Beloved; L.J.Holland-Toll & A.R.Mullis
When the Rainbow is Not Enough: Using African American Literature to Demystify Race in a Caribbean Tertiary Environment; P.Morgan
Teaching African American Women's Literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the Deep North; C.Ferrier
Postgraduate Students Working on African American Women's Writing: Supervision and the Research Journey; M.Treby & G.Wisker
Chronology of Key Publications and Events
Selective Guide to Further Reading, Books, Journal Articles and Web Resources
List of Key Authors and Critics
Index