Teaching American ethnic literatures
Subtitle: nineteen essays
By: edited by John R. Maitino and David R. Peck.
Contributors: Maitino, John R. 1947-; Peck, David R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- Study and teaching; Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life -- Study and teaching; Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature -- Study and teaching; Literature and society -- United States -- Study and teaching; Hispanic Americans in literature -- Study and teaching; African Americans in literature -- Study and teaching; Asian Americans in literature -- Study and teaching; Ethnic groups in literature -- Study and teaching; Minorities in literature -- Study and teaching; Ethnicity in literature -- Study and teaching; Indians in literature -- Study and teaching
Description: These critical essays, written specifically for instructors in literature courses, focus on longer works of prose in each of the four major ethnic literatures of the United States: Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, and African American. Each essay is accompanied by bibliographies and pedagogical strategies for helping students appreciate texts from a variety of cultures and traditions.

Instructors of broad survey courses will find this text invaluable as will those planning more specialized courses in the novel, short story, or autobiography. The authors included are ones whose works are often taught but about whom little critical comment is yet available. Teaching American Ethnic Literatures contributes to the scholarship on ethnic writing in the United States and to the effort to apply that scholarship to classroom teaching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.