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Teaching the literature of today's Middle East / Allen Webb, with David Alvarez ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle Eastern literature--Study and teaching.
- Middle Eastern literature.
- Muslims in literature.
- Middle East--In literature--Study and teaching.
- Middle East.
- Muslims in literature--Study and teaching.
- Middle East Region.
- Physical Description:
- pages ; cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Summary:
- Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Today 's Middle East: Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers Takes a thematic approach that allows students to understand and engage with the region and address key issues Includes stories from the author 's own classroom, and shares student insight and reactions Utilizes contemporary teaching methods, including cultural studies, literary circles, blogs, YouTube, class speakers, and film analysis Directly and powerfully models how to address controversial issues in the region -- Written in an open, personal, and engaging style, theoretically informed and academically smart, highly relevant across the field of literacy education, this text offers teachers and teacher-educators a much needed resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.
- Contents:
- Cultural and religious contexts
- Teaching about Abraham
- The theme of justice
- Muslim women in the Middle East
- A new high school social studies class: the Middle East, beginning with Turkey
- Europe and America in the Middle East: colonialism, neo-colonialism, intervention, terrorism and war
- Imbedded: teaching the Iraq War
- Teaching the Palestine/Israel conflict
- Teaching Moroccan literature of migration
- Literature by and about Muslim and Middle Eastern immigrants in the West
- Teaching Muslim students
- Reading and teaching literature in translation
- Connecting British and American literature to the Middle East.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780415874373
- 0415874378
- 9780415874380
- 0415874386
- 9780203832554
- 0203832558
- OCLC:
- 548660292
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