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Teaching the literatures of early America / edited by Carla Mulford.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Options for teaching ; 15.
- Options for teaching ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Study and teaching.
- American literature.
- American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--Study and teaching.
- Cultural pluralism--Study and teaching--United States.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Cultural pluralism--Study and teaching.
- History.
- Minorities in literature--Study and teaching.
- Minorities in literature.
- Decolonization in literature.
- American literature--Minority authors--Study and teaching.
- American literature--Minority authors.
- American literature--Colonial period.
- United States.
- American literature--1783-1850--Study and teaching.
- Decolonization in literature--Study and teaching.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Literature and the revolution--Study and teaching.
- America--Literatures--Study and teaching.
- America.
- Genre:
- Literatures.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1999.
- Summary:
- This volume offers approaches and methods to help teachers and their students reconceptualize early American literatures as a complex body of multifaceted works rather than merely an offshoot of British culture or a putatively American past.
- Different approaches are presented to literatures of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and French and Spanish colonials. Genre studies essays focus on early poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, and captivity narratives.
- Teaching the Literatures of Early America shows the innovative ways in which scholars and teachers are addressing the richness and variety of early materials.
- Contents:
- Part I Issues, Themes, Methods
- Beyond the Boundaries of the Americas
- The Old Wisdom: Introducing Native American Materials / James Ruppert 11
- Diversity and Difference in African American Writings / Amy E. Winans 27
- Early Women's Texts / Sharon M. Harris 48
- Figuring Multicultural Practice in Early American Literature Classrooms / Pattie Cowell 63
- Resisting Colonialism / Carla Mulford 75
- Spanish and French Colonial Writings
- Colonial Spanish Writings / E. Thomson Shields, Jr., Dana D. Nelson 97
- Early French North American Writings / Rosalie Murphy Baum 112
- British Colonial and Postcolonial Writings
- The Literature of England's Staple Colonies / David S. Shields 129
- The Literature of Colonial English Puritanism / Philip F. Gura 143
- The American Enlightenment and Endless Emancipation / Frank Shuffelton 155
- Federalism and Conflict / Nicholas D. Rombes 170
- Genre Studies
- Early Anglo-American Poetry: Genre, Voice, Art, and Representation / William J. Scheick 187
- Early American Prose Fiction and the Anxieties of Affluence / Joseph Fichtelberg 200
- Early American Drama and Theater / Jeffrey H. Richards 213
- American Self-Fashioning and the Problems of Autobiography / Gregory Eiselein 229
- Captivity Narratives / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola 243
- Part II Selected Courses
- The Early American Literature Survey / Russell Reising 259
- Gender, Genre, and Culture: A Two-Quarter Graduate Seminar / Karen E. Rowe 272
- Common Ground on Different Borders: A Comparative Study of Chicano/a and Puritan Writers / Jose F. Aranda, Jr. 297
- From "The Melting Pot" to Multiculturalism / Dennis D. Moore 309
- New Worlds, 1450-1750: A Historian's Perspective on the Study of Colonial America / Gary L. Hewitt 321.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 087352358X
- 0873523598
- OCLC:
- 42428689
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