Dear Charles Dickens, Love, South LA tells the story of how students at Foshay Learning Center, a public school in South Los Angeles, studied Charles Dickens as part of their AP English curriculum, and how, in that journey, a fellow traveler emerged: the city itself.
Jacqueline Jean Barrios confronts the cultural challenges that big canonical books pose to new generations of readers. Instead of erasing the differences between Dickens's implied audiences and his current ones, Barrios demonstrates how youth can serve as the visionaries who bridge the gap. By placing literature in everyday surroundings, students at any school and in any location can learn from the embodied and the poetic and even question the universalism that masks unexamined reverence for the Western canon.
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Dear Charles Dickens, Love, South LA
Literature, Place, and Belonging
- 319 pages
- English
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Education GeneralTable of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Prologue. Two Windows: Remembering Dickens, Remembering the City
- Introduction. The Beginnings of a Manifesto
- Chapter 1. Walking: Little Dorrit and A Walk Home: A Sense of Place in Photographic Triptychs
- Chapter 2. Listening: Barnaby Rudge and LA 1992/London 1780: Urban Uprising and Scavenging Sound
- Chapter 3. Mapping: David Copperfield and LA Copperfield: Cartographies of Belonging in Collective Fotonovelas
- Chapter 4. Beyond Dickens, Beyond South LA: Dear Iola, Love, South LA and Book of the City
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List
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