Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom / by Ingrid Johnston, Jyoti Mangat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Ingrid.

Contributor:

Mangat, Jyoti.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Local Subjects:

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultural mediation for readers from various backgrounds. The studies described in the five chapters of the book explore the spaces of convergence of identity, culture and literature with students and teachers in high school contexts and undergraduates in university settings. In each study, readers are responding to texts that are culturally distant from their own literary and experiential histories. An objective of each study was to consider the nature of the cultural locations of the reader and the text, and the interstitial spaces between these locations. The book interrogates readers’ attempts to negotiate cultural difference in literary contexts and questions how this negotiation requires reading practices traditionally ignored in North American classrooms. The book will offer educators at the secondary and post-secondary levels rich material to draw upon for a rethinking of the school curriculum and will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial and literary studies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Spaces of Impact: Adolescents Interrogating a Story of the Air India Bombing

Truth or Lie: Students Reading the Indeterminacies of an Aboriginal Auto/Biographical Text

Telling Too Much: Cultural Translation in African Novels for Adolescent Readers

Outside the Comfort Zone: Re-locating Ourselves in a Postcolonial Literary Pedagogy

National Identity and the Ideology of Canadian Multicultural Picture Books: Pre-service Teachers Encountering Representations of Difference

Afterwords

Canadian Multicultural Picture Books Presented in the Workshops

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613709585

9781280799198

1280799196

9789460917059

9460917054

OCLC:

782043019