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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler

Author : Tarshia L. Stanley
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294163
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler written by Tarshia L. Stanley and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia E. Butler's works of science fiction invite readers to consider the structures of power in society and to ask what it means to be human. Butler addresses social justice issues such as poverty, racism, and violence against women and connects the history of slavery in the United States with speculation on a biologically altered future world. The first section of this volume, "Materials," lists secondary sources and interviews with Butler and suggests texts that instructors might pair with her works. Essays in the second section, "Approaches," situate Butler in science fiction, modernism, and Afrofuturism and provide interdisciplinary approaches from political science, philosophy, art, and digital humanities. The contributors present strategies for teaching Butler in literature courses as well as courses designed for adult learners, preservice teachers, and students at historically black colleges and universities.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler

Author : Tarshia L. Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781603294171
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (941 download)

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler

Author : Gregory J. Hampton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350079650
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler written by Gregory J. Hampton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler's complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred, to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables, this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author's work, including: · Cyborgs and the posthuman · Race and African American history · Afrofuturism · Gender and sexuality · New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies · New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington Library The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels

Author : Lin Knutson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666903116
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels written by Lin Knutson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which Butler’s protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological, physical, and social transformations that increase their empowerment.

Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030941663
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom by : Laurence W. Mazzeno

Download or read book Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

Author : Ruth Y. Hsu
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603295429
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita written by Ruth Y. Hsu and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structurally innovative and culturally expansive, the works of Karen Tei Yamashita invite readers to rethink conventional paradigms of genres and national traditions. Her novels, plays, and other texts refashion forms like the immigrant tale, the postmodern novel, magical realism, apocalyptic literature, and the picaresque and suggest new transnational, hemispheric, and global frameworks for interpreting Asian American literature. Addressing courses in American studies, contemporary fiction, environmental humanities, and literary theory, the essays in this volume are written by undergraduate and graduate instructors from across the United States and around the globe. Part 1, "Materials," outlines Yamashita's novels and other texts, key works of criticism and theory, and resources for Asian American and Asian Brazilian literature and culture. Part 2, "Approaches," provides options for exploring Yamashita's works through teaching historical debates, outlining principles of environmental justice, mapping geographic boundaries to highlight power dynamics, and drawing personal connections to the texts. Additionally, an essay by Yamashita describes her own approaches to teaching creative writing.

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler

Author : Alexandra Pierce
Publisher : Twelfth Planet Press
ISBN 13 : 1922101435
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler written by Alexandra Pierce and published by Twelfth Planet Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships, her complex treatment of race and identity, and her impact on feminism and women in Science Fiction. Follow the luminescent threads that connect Octavia E. Butler and her body of work to the many readers and writers who have found inspiration in her words, and the complex universes she created.

Resource Handbook for Academic Deans

Author : Andrew Adams
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421444526
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Resource Handbook for Academic Deans written by Andrew Adams and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide addresses the expanding, multifaceted role of college and university academic leaders. The new edition of the Resource Handbook for Academic Deans, one of the most important offerings to the academic community by the American Conference of Academic Deans, is written by and for academic leaders to address the expanding, multifaceted role of college and university administrators. Each chapter explores a topic related to how higher education leaders are influenced by national events, local partnerships, or on-campus collaborations. Among the topics covered are: • understanding educational policy at the national level • working with leaders from department heads to provosts • engaging with external partners • leading collaborative change at small colleges and universities • shifting toward student-centered campuses • making data-informed decisions • embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion • managing and balancing salaries • building effective leadership teams and mentoring future leaders • holding difficult conversations • returning to the faculty after leadership Providing helpful advice that can be studied in short chapters and inspiring content based on personal experience, the forty-three authors in this volume hold positions from department chairs to presidents at four-year and community colleges across the country. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic and amid calls for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education, each chapter offers perceptive insights from experienced leaders who serve a broad range of institutional types.

Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294198
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom written by John Miller and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the challenges and opportunities of online literature classes and suggests instructional strategies that ensure students are engaged in the virtual classroom. The ideas shared here are grounded in research, practice, critical self-reflection, and collaboration. Reflecting a diverse collection of practical tips and experiences from colleagues teaching at a variety of institutions, the essays offer readers the chance to inhabit others' classrooms. Contributors discuss building an interactive and inclusive classroom and using hypertext, video lectures, and other asynchronous and synchronous tools in classes whose subjects include, among others, Shakespeare, the Chinese novel, early American literature, speculative fiction, and contemporary American poetry.

Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work

Author : Martin Japtok
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030466256
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler's Work written by Martin Japtok and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Contradictions in Octavia Butler’s Work continues the critical discussions of Butler’s work by offering a variety of theoretical perspectives and approaches to Butler’s text. This collection contains original essays that engage Butler’s series (Seed to Harvest, Xenogenesis, Parables), her stand-alone novels (Kindred and Fledgling), and her short stories. The essays explore new facets of Butler’s work and its relevance to philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, women’s studies, religious studies, American studies, and U.S. history. The volume establishes new ways of reading this seminal figure in African American literature, science fiction, feminism, and popular culture.

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred

Author : Carlton D. Floyd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793634122
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The American Dream and Dreams Deferred written by Carlton D. Floyd and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how rival interpretations of the American Dream poignantly express conflicts over its very meaning, revealing the dialectical tension therein, and awakening us to the distance between the Dream and our reality, in the light of its continued deferment and its price.

Maroons and the Marooned

Author : Richard Bodek
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149682721X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Maroons and the Marooned written by Richard Bodek and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Richard Bodek, Claire P. Curtis, Joseph Kelly, Simon Lewis, Steve Mentz, J. Brent Morris, Peter Sands, Edward Shore, and James O'Neil Spady Commonly, the word maroon refers to someone cast away on an island. One becomes marooned, usually, through a storm at sea or by a captain as a method of punishment. But the term originally denoted escaped slaves. Though being marooned came to be associated mostly with white European castaways, the etymology invites comparison between true maroons (escaped slaves establishing new lives in the wilderness) and people who were marooned (through maritime disaster). This volume brings together literary scholars with historians, encompassing both literal maroons such as in Brazil and South Carolina as well as metaphoric scenarios in time-travel novels and postapocalyptic narratives. Included are examples from The Tempest; Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Both runaways and castaways formed new societies in the wilderness. But true maroons, escaped slaves, were not cast away; they chose to fly towards the uncertainties of the wild in pursuit of freedom. In effect, this volume gives these maroons proper credit, at the very heart of American history.

Redemptive Dreams

Author : Jason S. Sexton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000990400
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Redemptive Dreams written by Jason S. Sexton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California’s most ambitious interpreter. While Starr’s multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gaze—synthesizing central features, big themes, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dream—his eight-volume California Dream series, along with several other books and thousands of published articles and essays, often puzzled historians and other scholars. Historians in the contemporary school of critical historiography often found Starr’s narrative approach—seeking to tell the internal drama of the California story—to be less attuned to the most important work happening in the field. Such a perspective fails to acknowledge key developments in historical subfields like Black and African American Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Asian Studies, Native Studies, and others that draw from the narrative in their critical work and how this relates to Starr’s contribution. But it also neglects Starr as a theological interpreter. Along with being a major figure in California institutional life, with literary output spanning genres from journalism to critical cultural and political commentary, to history and memoir, Starr’s unique contribution to California Studies as a distinctly Catholic historian has yet to be adequately understood. Through his lived experience as a devout Catholic to the particular theological features of this faith tradition that animated his views, this critical sociological perspective sheds new light on his project. With contributions from sociology, history, and theology, akin to investigations appearing in Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California’s Culture (Routledge), Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent in interdisciplinary theological reflection on place and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starr’s articulation of the California Dream. Such a vision remains important for reckoning with California’s place in the world.

Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media

Author : Susan Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000509206
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media written by Susan Flynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media investigates how popular media offers the potential to radicalise what and how we teach for inclusivity. Bringing together established scholars in the areas of race and pedagogy, this collection offers a unique approach to critical pedagogy by analysing current and historical iterations of race onscreen. The book forms theoretical and methodological bridges between the disciplinary fields of pedagogy, equality studies, and screen studies to explore how we might engage in and critique screen culture for teaching about race. It employs Critical Race Theory and paradigmatic frameworks to address some of the social crises in Higher Education classrooms, forging new understandings of how notions of race are buttressed by popular media. The chapters draw on popular media as a tool to explore the social, economic, and cultural dimensions of racial injustice and are grouped by Black studies, migration studies, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, and Asian studies. Each chapter addresses diversity and the necessity for teaching to include visual media which is reflective of a myriad of students’ experiences. Offering opportunities for using popular media to teach for inclusion in Higher Education, this critical and timely book will be highly relevant for academics, scholars, and students across interdisciplinary fields such as pedagogy, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, and equality studies.

Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture

Author : John Hay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316997421
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture written by John Hay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.

Teaching American Studies

Author : Elizabeth A. Duclos-Orsello
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700632379
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Teaching American Studies written by Elizabeth A. Duclos-Orsello and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What if American Studies is defined not so much in the pages of the most cutting-edge publications, but through what happens in our classrooms and other learning spaces?” In Teaching American Studies Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill ask a diverse group of American Studies educators to respond to that question by writing chapters about teaching that use a classroom activity or a particular course to reflect on the state of the field of American Studies. Teaching American Studies speaks to teachers with a wide range of relationships to the field. To start, it is a useful how-to guide for faculty who might be new to, or unfamiliar with, American Studies. Each author brings the reader into their classes to offer specific, concrete details about their pedagogical practice, and their students' learning. The resulting chapters connect theory and educational action as well as share challenges, difficulties, and lessons learned. The volume also provides a collective impression of American Studies from the point of view of students and teachers. What primary and secondary texts and what theoretical challenges and issues do faculty use to organize their teaching? How does the teaching we do respond to our institutional and educational contexts? How do our experiences and those of our students challenge or change our understanding of American Studies? Chapters in this collection discuss teaching a broad range of materials, from memoirs and novels by Anne Moody and Octavia Butler to cutting-edge cultural theory, to the widely used collection Keywords for American Cultural Studies. But the chapters in this collection are also about dancing, eating, and walking around a campus to view statues and gravestones. They are about teaching during the era of Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, and giving up authority in the classroom. Teaching American Studies is both a new way to think about American Studies and a timely collection of effective ways to teach about race, gender, sexuality, and power in a moment of political polarization and intense public scrutiny of universities.

Recontextualizing Resistance

Author : Emily Golson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527507378
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Recontextualizing Resistance written by Emily Golson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance is a concept that rose to the forefront of several areas of study when Max Weber made careful distinctions between authority, force, violence, domination, and legitimation. It gained strong attention when the well-known Palestinian journalist, activist, fiction writer and critic Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) published a study entitled the Literature of Resistance in Occupied Palestine: 1948–1966, a work that contributed to postcolonial theories of power, race, ethnicity and gender, and second generation theories of orientalism, feminism, and disability. Initially identified by philosophers, historians, and social critics as a focal point for situations in which oppressors brutally destroy the identity or subjectivity of the oppressed, resistance has been transformed by fiction writers, filmmakers, lyricists and speechmakers into a process in which responses and counter-responses to some type of injustice create difficult situations with complicated nuances. These works now form the foundation for what has come to be recognized as “resistance art.” This book gathers the insight, knowledge, and wisdom found in different manifestations of this art to further our understanding of the impact of resistance on contemporary life.