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Book Synopsis
Help students to explore the intertextuality of literature and to think more deeply and compassionately about the world. This book shows high school teachers and college instructors how to foreground a work’s cultural context, recognising that every culture has its own narrative tradition of oral and written classics that inform its literature.

Table of Contents
  • Contents (Tentative)
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: "Why Are We Reading This?"
  • The Tar Baby Incident
  • The LIST Paradigm: A Guided Approach to Teaching Literature
  • Creating the LIST Paradigm
  • Introduction: "Culturally Responsive Reading: What It Is and Why It Matters"
  • "Moving Out Beyond Yourself": Coping With Culture Shock
  • Defining "American Literature": Reading Western "Classics"
  • Exploring Postcolonial Literature: Telling Our Own Stories
  • Achieving Agency: Rejecting "The White Criterion"
  • Misreading Multicultural Texts
  • Challenging Censorship
  • PART I: The LIST Paradigm: A Guide to Culturally Responsive Reading
  • 1. Culture in the Classroom: Introducing the LIST Paradigm
  • Teaching at the Academy
  • Exploring Cultural Myths
  • Exploring Definitions of "Culture"
  • Teaching Values
  • Introducing the LIST Paradigm
  • Literary Analysis
  • Literary Criticism
  • List Paradigm Exercises
  • Teaching Through the Lens of Culture
  • 2. Telling Our Stories: Exploring the Power of Narrative
  • Defining "Story"
  • Bibliotherapy
  • Mindful Reading
  • Types of Stories
  • 3. Readers, Reading, and the Reading Process
  • Why We Read
  • What We Read
  • How We Read
  • 4. "Interrogating the Text": Asking Significant Questions
  • Conflicting Views on Reading Literature
  • Engaging Questions From Other Disciplines
  • Who Is "Qualified" to Speak?
  • Questions for Writers
  • Questions for Students
  • Exploring "Subversive" Texts
  • PART II: Exploring the LIST Paradigm: Four "Keys to Culture"
  • Chapter 5: Language: "How Does the Author Contextualize Linguistic Signs and Symbols?"
  • Language as Resistance
  • Language in Postcolonial Studies
  • Reading Ousamne Sembène's Niiwam
  • Language Creation: Code-Switching and Code-Meshing
  • Language Validation: Standard English and Vernacular
  • Language Use: "The Transforming Power of Language"
  • Significant Questions—General
  • Significant Questions—Music
  • 6. Identity: "Who Are These People and What Do They Want?"
  • Identity Politics (Race, Racism, and Colorism)
  • Literary Archetypes
  • Cultural Stereotypes
  • Significant Questions
  • 7. Space: "How Do Characters Negotiate the Text's Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Landscapes?"
  • Physical Space
  • Domestic Space ("Home")
  • Racialized Space
  • Counterspaces (Third Space Theory)
  • Psychological Space
  • The Subaltern
  • Cultural Landscapes: The Slave Ships
  • Narrative Space
  • Significant Questions
  • 8. Time: "How Does an Author Manipulate Time"
  • Exploring Time in Contemporary Fiction
  • Cultural Perceptions of Time
  • Historiography
  • Historicity
  • Time in A Lesson Before Dying
  • Significant Questions
  • PART III: Exploring the LIST Paradigm: Unlocking the Text
  • 9. Cultural Contexts for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Reading Oscar Wao
  • Language in Oscar Wao
  • History: The Parsley Massacre
  • Major Influences
  • Author Background
  • 10. Exploring the LIST Paradigm© : Reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Introducing the Novel
  • Narrative Structure
  • Language: "How Does the Author Contextualize Linguistic Signs and Symbols?"
  • Identity: "Who Are These People and What Do They Want"
  • Space: "How Do Characters Negotiate the Text's Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Landscapes?"
  • Time: "How Does the Author Manipulate Time?"
  • Coda
  • Appendix A.1: Exploring the LIST Paradigm: A Reader's Guide
  • Appendix A.2: LIST Worksheet
  • Appendix B: Defining Elements of Morrison's Fiction
  • Appendix C: Notes on Narrative Structure
  • Appendix D: Suggestions for Pairing Texts
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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      Publisher: Teachers' College Press
      Publication Date: 31/03/2023
      ISBN13: 9780807768280, 978-0807768280
      ISBN10: 0807768286
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Help students to explore the intertextuality of literature and to think more deeply and compassionately about the world. This book shows high school teachers and college instructors how to foreground a work’s cultural context, recognising that every culture has its own narrative tradition of oral and written classics that inform its literature.

      Table of Contents
      • Contents (Tentative)
      • Foreword
      • Acknowledgments
      • Preface: "Why Are We Reading This?"
      • The Tar Baby Incident
      • The LIST Paradigm: A Guided Approach to Teaching Literature
      • Creating the LIST Paradigm
      • Introduction: "Culturally Responsive Reading: What It Is and Why It Matters"
      • "Moving Out Beyond Yourself": Coping With Culture Shock
      • Defining "American Literature": Reading Western "Classics"
      • Exploring Postcolonial Literature: Telling Our Own Stories
      • Achieving Agency: Rejecting "The White Criterion"
      • Misreading Multicultural Texts
      • Challenging Censorship
      • PART I: The LIST Paradigm: A Guide to Culturally Responsive Reading
      • 1. Culture in the Classroom: Introducing the LIST Paradigm
      • Teaching at the Academy
      • Exploring Cultural Myths
      • Exploring Definitions of "Culture"
      • Teaching Values
      • Introducing the LIST Paradigm
      • Literary Analysis
      • Literary Criticism
      • List Paradigm Exercises
      • Teaching Through the Lens of Culture
      • 2. Telling Our Stories: Exploring the Power of Narrative
      • Defining "Story"
      • Bibliotherapy
      • Mindful Reading
      • Types of Stories
      • 3. Readers, Reading, and the Reading Process
      • Why We Read
      • What We Read
      • How We Read
      • 4. "Interrogating the Text": Asking Significant Questions
      • Conflicting Views on Reading Literature
      • Engaging Questions From Other Disciplines
      • Who Is "Qualified" to Speak?
      • Questions for Writers
      • Questions for Students
      • Exploring "Subversive" Texts
      • PART II: Exploring the LIST Paradigm: Four "Keys to Culture"
      • Chapter 5: Language: "How Does the Author Contextualize Linguistic Signs and Symbols?"
      • Language as Resistance
      • Language in Postcolonial Studies
      • Reading Ousamne Sembène's Niiwam
      • Language Creation: Code-Switching and Code-Meshing
      • Language Validation: Standard English and Vernacular
      • Language Use: "The Transforming Power of Language"
      • Significant Questions—General
      • Significant Questions—Music
      • 6. Identity: "Who Are These People and What Do They Want?"
      • Identity Politics (Race, Racism, and Colorism)
      • Literary Archetypes
      • Cultural Stereotypes
      • Significant Questions
      • 7. Space: "How Do Characters Negotiate the Text's Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Landscapes?"
      • Physical Space
      • Domestic Space ("Home")
      • Racialized Space
      • Counterspaces (Third Space Theory)
      • Psychological Space
      • The Subaltern
      • Cultural Landscapes: The Slave Ships
      • Narrative Space
      • Significant Questions
      • 8. Time: "How Does an Author Manipulate Time"
      • Exploring Time in Contemporary Fiction
      • Cultural Perceptions of Time
      • Historiography
      • Historicity
      • Time in A Lesson Before Dying
      • Significant Questions
      • PART III: Exploring the LIST Paradigm: Unlocking the Text
      • 9. Cultural Contexts for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
      • Reading Oscar Wao
      • Language in Oscar Wao
      • History: The Parsley Massacre
      • Major Influences
      • Author Background
      • 10. Exploring the LIST Paradigm© : Reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
      • Introducing the Novel
      • Narrative Structure
      • Language: "How Does the Author Contextualize Linguistic Signs and Symbols?"
      • Identity: "Who Are These People and What Do They Want"
      • Space: "How Do Characters Negotiate the Text's Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Landscapes?"
      • Time: "How Does the Author Manipulate Time?"
      • Coda
      • Appendix A.1: Exploring the LIST Paradigm: A Reader's Guide
      • Appendix A.2: LIST Worksheet
      • Appendix B: Defining Elements of Morrison's Fiction
      • Appendix C: Notes on Narrative Structure
      • Appendix D: Suggestions for Pairing Texts
      • References
      • Index
      • About the Author

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