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Title Teaching American ethnic literatures : nineteen essays / edited by John R. Maitino and David R. Peck.

Publication Info. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1996]
©1996

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.992 T253T    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description ix, 350 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Indian preservation: teaching Black Elk speaks / G. Thomas Couser -- Beauty before me: notes on Houses made of down (N. Scott Momaday) / Helen Jaskoski -- Crying for vision in James Welch's Winter in the blood / William W. Thackeray -- Ceremony: from alienation to reciprocity (Leslie Marmon Silko) / Norma C. Wilson -- Building bridges: crossing the waters to a Love medicine (Louise
Erdrich) / John Purdy -- Ethnic and gender identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Susan Meisenhelder -- Racial discourse and self-creation: Richard Wright's Black boy / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Measure him right: an analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Rasin in the sun / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller -- Closer to the edge: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Linda
Wagner-Martin -- A fairy-tale life : The making of Celie in Alice Walker's The color purple / Daniel W. Ross -- Learning to read (and/in) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Chicano theater reaches the professional stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot suit / Elizabeth Ramirez -- Entering The house on mango street (Sandra Cisneros) / Julian Olivares -- Richard Rodriguez's
Hunger of memory and new perspectives on ethnic autobiography / Antonio C. Marquez -- Searching for the heart of America (Carlos Bulosan) / E. San Juan, Jr. -- Growing with stories: Chinese American identities, textual identities (Maxine Hong Kingston) / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Experiential approaches to teaching joy Kogawa's Obasan / Mitsuye Yamada -- Reading between the syllables:
Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen syllables and other stories / Wendy Ho.
Local Note Jan. 1997 $22.50 [16.74] PPB 057041046
Jan. 1997 $22.50 [16.74] PPB 057041046
Subject American literature -- Minority authors -- Study and teaching.
Cultural pluralism in literature -- Study and teaching.
Literature and society -- United States -- Study and teaching.
Hispanic Americans in literature -- Study and teaching.
Asian Americans in literature -- Study and teaching.
African Americans in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature -- Study and teaching.
Minorities in literature -- Study and teaching.
Ethnicity in literature -- Study and teaching.
Indians in literature -- Study and teaching.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples in literature -- Study and teaching.
Added Author Maitino, John R. (John Rocco), 1947-
Peck, David R.
ISBN 0826316867 paperback
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