Approaches to teaching the works of Octavia E. Butler / edited by Tarshia L. Stanley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanley, Tarshia L., editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 160.

Approaches to teaching world literatue ; 160

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Butler, Octavia E--Study and teaching.

Butler, Octavia E.

Butler, Octavia E--Criticism and interpretation.

Study skills.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 168 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2019.

Contents:

Teaching Dawn in an introductory course on modern(ist) literature, with a gothic inflection / John Paul Riquelme

Historicizing the future : teaching historical consciousness in Butler's fiction / Matthew Mullins

Teaching Butler in a course on colonialism and science fiction / Aparajita Nanda

Teaching Fledgling as a narrative of love and power / Lauren J. Lacey

Keeping the science in science fiction : teaching Butler in an interdisciplinary writing course / Laurel Bollinger

"My books will be read by millions of people!" : the LaGuardia Community College Octavia E. Butler project on Wikipedia / Ximena Gallardo C. and Ann Matsuuchi

The politics of living together : Butler's short stories and teaching political philosophy / Claire P. Curtis

Unchained : using Butler to upend how we teach the history of slavery / Amy Abisher

For adults only : a competency-based approach to teaching Butler's Wild seed / Deborah Wood Holton

Parable of the sower and antiracist pedagogy : reading Butler with preservice teachers / Bevin Roue and Laura Apol

Reading whiteness in Kindred to teach transnational pedagogy / Shreyashi Mukiherjee

Drawing the Oankali : imaging race, gender, and the posthuman in Butler's Dawn / Edmond Y. Chang

Ecocritical ideas and Butler's "Bloodchild" and Parable of the sower / Susan M. Bernardo

Teaching the social construction of disability throught the parable series, Lilith's brood, and Seed to harvest / Sami Schalk

Clay's ark : teaching Butler's vision beyond liberal consent / Beth A. McCoy

Intergroup dialogue and difficult conversations : teaching Butler at a private, Christian, predominantly white institution / Kendra R. Parker

Butler as feminist philosopher : a care-ethics approach to teaching Kindred and Dawn / Rekik Scholler-Mekonnen

The allegory of Shori's cave : teaching Fledgling as the science fiction of racism / Marleen S. Barr

Teaching Parable of the sower through afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III

Teaching Butler's "Bloodchild" and the tenets of afrofuturism / Kristen Lillvis

Teaching afrofuturistic thought leadership in Butler's fiction / Tarshia L. Stanley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Approaches to teaching the works of Octavia E. Butler

ISBN:

9781603294157

1603294155

9781603294591

1603294597

9781602394599

1602394598

OCLC:

1097466158