Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison and Elliot - Softcover

Moreland, Richard C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814250254 ISBN 13: 9780814250259

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 1999

Synopsis

A study of how American literature has kept its two main traditions - the European American and the African American - apart. Through analyses of texts from both traditions, it argues that we need to cultivate a greater appreciation for the double consciousness of each in order to teach them.

About this title

About the Author

Richard C. Moreland is Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in English, and former Director of Graduate Studies in English at Louisiana State University. His previous publications include "Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting" (1990) and "Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot" (1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814250254
• ISBN 13: 9780814250259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192