Teaching African American Women’s Writing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction to Teaching African American Women’s Writing

   • Gina Wisker

   Pages 1-20

3. Teaching The Color Purple

   • Gina Wisker

   Pages 21-41

4. Tune In and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

   • Victoria Bazin

   Pages 42-59

5. Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory

   • Deborah L. Madsen

   Pages 60-74

6. Teaching Four African American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez

   • Frenzella E. De Lancey

   Pages 75-86

7. “This Crisis in the History of the Negro”: Contending Forces at the Nexus of Debate

   • Joe Sutliff Sanders

   Pages 87-101

8. (En)lightening the Dark Vision: Redemption through Storytelling in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

   • Linda J. Holland-Toll, Angela R. Mullis

   Pages 102-120

9. When the Rainbow Is Not Enough: Using African American Literature to Demystify Race in a Caribbean Tertiary Environment

   • Paula Morgan

   Pages 121-136

10. Teaching African American Women’s Literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the Deep North

    • Carole Ferrier

    Pages 137-156

11. Postgraduate Students Working on African American Women’s Writing: Supervision and the Research Journey

    • Gina Wisker, Marion Treby

    Pages 157-183

12. Back Matter

    Pages 184-220

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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.

• America
• Amerikanische Literatur
• crisis
• women

'The Teaching the New English Series is a welcome and timely contribution to the changing canon, curriculum, and classroom practice of English in higher education. Imaginatively conceived and professionally edited, the series will be required reading for instructors in English studies worldwide.' - Professor Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita of English, Princeton University, USA, and Author of Teaching Literature

• University of Brighton, UK

  Gina Wisker

Gina has worked in educational development for over 25 years, and in 2005 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for her work in teaching and learning. She is the author of The Undergraduate Research Handbook, The Postgraduate Research Handbook and The Good Supervisor. 

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