Teaching African American Women's Writing

The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education groups as well as teachers involved in teaching in schools to A level.

This book engages with topical and experience-based practices of the teaching of African American women's writing in the US, UK, Australasia and Caribbean, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels African American women's writing is taught worldwide. It has the ability to engage readers with values, emotions, history, rights, and issues to do with choice of form of expression, from realism and life writing to fantasy. This book engages with topical and experience-based practices of the teaching of African American women's writing worldwide. It includes invaluable essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, among others, and considers their appreciation in context in the US, UK, Australasia and the Caribbean, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It should be immensely useful for anyone teaching this popular and important body of literature at any level.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction to Teaching African American Women's Writing; G. Wisker Teaching The Color Purple ; G. Wisker Tune in and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God ; V. Bazin Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory; D. L. Madsen Teaching Four African-American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez; F. E. De Lancey 'This Crisis in the History of the Negro': Contending Forces at the Nexus of Debate; J. S. Sanders (En)lightening the Dark Vision: Redemption through Storytelling in Toni Morrison's Beloved; L. J. Holland-Toll & A. R. Mullis When the Rainbow is Not Enough: Using African American Literature to Demystify Race in a Caribbean Tertiary Environment; P. Morgan Teaching African American Women's Literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the Deep North; C. Ferrier Postgraduate Students Working on African American Women's Writing: Supervision and the Research Journey; M. Treby & G. Wisker Chronology of Key Publications and Events Selective Guide to Further Reading, Books, Journal Articles and Web Resources List of Key Authors and Critics Index