
Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 17. August 2020
Book
Hardback
118 pages
978-1-7936-0715-7 (ISBN)
Description
Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts explores alternative approaches to Caribbean texts from transnational and multilingual perspectives. The authors query what new systems and criteria can be implemented to rethink and remodel our theoretical and pedagogical corpus and alter the lenses through which we study Caribbean texts. Pulling from the Caribbean's global diaspora, the authors examine writers such as Roxane Gay, Esmeralda Santiago, Wilson Harris, and Gloria Anzaldua in order to resituate the place of Caribbean texts in the classroom.
Each chapter argues for a reunification of Caribbean literature studies-rather than studying this body of text only in terms of a certain aspect of its history or culture, the authors necessitate the importance of analyzing these works from a pan-Caribbean perspective. This collection discusses the ideas of transcending individual disciplines and specialties to create global theories, overcoming pedagogical challenges when bringing Caribbean texts into the classroom, and (re)reading texts with the purpose of discovering new symbols, themes, and meanings.
Each chapter argues for a reunification of Caribbean literature studies-rather than studying this body of text only in terms of a certain aspect of its history or culture, the authors necessitate the importance of analyzing these works from a pan-Caribbean perspective. This collection discusses the ideas of transcending individual disciplines and specialties to create global theories, overcoming pedagogical challenges when bringing Caribbean texts into the classroom, and (re)reading texts with the purpose of discovering new symbols, themes, and meanings.
Reviews / Votes
Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts by Jeanne Jegousso and Emily O'Dell is a necessary companion to the consideration of Caribbean literature from transnational and translocal perspectives. The volume's essays emphasize the polylingual and complex cultural contexts involved in the creation of Caribbean literature, and therefore, the necessary attenuation of these factors for its analysis. I recommend this book for anyone seeking innovative pedagogies in Caribbean Studies. -- Solimar Otero, Indiana University-Bloomington Jeanne Jegousso and Emily O'Dell question the dismemberment of Caribbean studies over the recent decades and call for a Pan-Caribbean perspective that moves beyond the traditional linguistic and national divide in the Caribbean. A beautifully written book, proposing exciting new pedagogical and theoretical approaches to explore Caribbean texts. -- Charly Verstraet, University of Alabama at BirminghamMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-0715-7 (9781793607157)
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Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts
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Emily O'Dell | Jeanne Jegousso
Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts
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08/2020
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€78.49
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Persons
Emily A. O'Dell is lecturer of English at George College and State University.
Jeanne Jegousso is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Hollins University.
Jeanne Jegousso is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Hollins University.
Content
Introduction, Jeanne Jegousso and Emily O'Dell
Chapter 1: World Literature or Litterature-monde: A Pedagogical Approach to Maryse Conde's Victoire, les saveurs et les mots: recit, Kristina S. Gibby
Chapter 2: In and Out of the Academic Ghetto: Overcoming Segregation and Embracing Marginalisation in the Teaching of Caribbean Literature at a UK University, Hazel Mackenzie
Chapter 3: "Once Upon a Time, in a Nearby Hell": Roxane Gay's An Untamed State and Reading, Writing, and Teaching Haiti, Christopher Garland
Chapter 4: Dub, Saltfish, and Majah Hype: Caribbean Diaspora as a Praxis with Theory, Cathy Thomas
Chapter 5: The Child Ethnographer in Autofictional Literature of the Spanish Caribbean: Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican, Emily O'Dell
Chapter 6: Creolizing the Chasms of Humanity: Threshold Passages in Wilson Harris and Gloria Anzaldua's Cross-Cultural Poetics, Michael Grafals
Chapter 7: Beyond the Scribal Canon: Re-inserting Caribbean Vernacular 'Texts' Into Theory, R. Anthony Lewis
Chapter 1: World Literature or Litterature-monde: A Pedagogical Approach to Maryse Conde's Victoire, les saveurs et les mots: recit, Kristina S. Gibby
Chapter 2: In and Out of the Academic Ghetto: Overcoming Segregation and Embracing Marginalisation in the Teaching of Caribbean Literature at a UK University, Hazel Mackenzie
Chapter 3: "Once Upon a Time, in a Nearby Hell": Roxane Gay's An Untamed State and Reading, Writing, and Teaching Haiti, Christopher Garland
Chapter 4: Dub, Saltfish, and Majah Hype: Caribbean Diaspora as a Praxis with Theory, Cathy Thomas
Chapter 5: The Child Ethnographer in Autofictional Literature of the Spanish Caribbean: Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican, Emily O'Dell
Chapter 6: Creolizing the Chasms of Humanity: Threshold Passages in Wilson Harris and Gloria Anzaldua's Cross-Cultural Poetics, Michael Grafals
Chapter 7: Beyond the Scribal Canon: Re-inserting Caribbean Vernacular 'Texts' Into Theory, R. Anthony Lewis