Title: Understanding others : cultural and cross-cultural studies and the teaching of literature /
Authors: Trimmer, Joseph F.; Warnock, Tilly.
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English,
Year: 1992
Subjects: American literature Minority authors Study and teaching.; Cultural pluralism Study and teaching.; Literature and society Study and teaching United States.; Ethnic groups in literature Study and teaching.; Minorities in literature Study and teaching.; Ethnicity in literature Study and teaching.; Culture in literature Study and teaching.; Minorities Intellectual life Study and teaching United States.; Cultural pluralism in literature Study and teaching.
Contents: Cultural criticism : past and present / Mary Poovey -- Genre as a social institution / James F. Slevin -- Teaching multicultural literature / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Translation as a method for cross-cultural teaching / Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier -- Teaching in the television culture / Judith Scot-Smith Girgus and Cecelia Tichi -- Multicultural teaching : it's an inside job / Mary C. Savage -- Chicana feminism : in the tracks of "the" native woman / Norma Alarcón -- Current African American literary theory : review and projections / Reginald Martin -- Talking across cultures / Robert S. Burton -- Walter Mitty in China : teaching American fiction in an alien culture / H.W. Matalene -- Text, context, and teaching literature by African American women / Sandra Jamieson -- Sethe's "big, bad" love / Chauncey A. Ridley -- Baldwin, Bebop, and "Sonny's blues" / Pancho Savery -- Filiative and affiliative textualization in Chinese American literature / David Leiwei Li -- The unheard : Vietnamese voices in the literature curriculum / Renny Christopher -- Narrative theory in Naguib Mahfouz's The children of Gebelawi / Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist -- The mixed blood writer as interpreter and mythmaker / Patricia Riley.