Teaching African American Women's Writing

G. Wisker

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780230003460
• eBook ISBN: 9781137086471
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• 1 Introduction to Teaching African American Women’s Writing
• 2 Teaching The Color Purple
• 3 Tune In and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
• 4 Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory
• 5 Teaching Four African American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez
• 6 “This Crisis in the History of the Negro”: Contending Forces at the Nexus of Debate
• 7 (En)lightening the Dark Vision: Redemption through Storytelling in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
• 8 When the Rainbow Is Not Enough: Using African American Literature to Demystify Race in a Caribbean Tertiary Environment
• 9 Teaching African American Women’s Literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the Deep North
• 10 Postgraduate Students Working on African American Women’s Writing: Supervision and the Research Journey
• Appendix I: Chronology of Key Publications and Events
• Appendix II: Selective Guide to Further Reading
• Appendix III: Key Authors and Works
• Index