Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for Difference (SUNY Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning) (SUNY series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791416461 ISBN 13: 9780791416464

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers have constructed workable models of teaching literature in multicultural classrooms.

The authors provide an interdisciplinary dialogue on the setbacks, solutions, silences, and successes that often occur in classes of multicultural literature. They all take the stance that definitions of literacy and literature originate as much outside the classroom as within it.

With the inclusion of essays by writers themselves-a feature provided by no other book on this subject-the authors offer a unique vocalization of the nationalistic, economic, empowering, and moral purposes that reading and writing serve. The book also includes a current guide to selected resources in multicultural literature, in hopes of encouraging and facilitating instructors in the transformation of their own literature courses into multicultural ones.

About this title

About the Author

Suzanne M. Miller is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York, Albany. Barbara McCaskill is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.

From the Back Cover

Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roes does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers have constructed workable models of teaching literature in multicultural classrooms.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791416461
• ISBN 13: 9780791416464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Miller Suzanne M.