Teaching in Times of Crisis
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Teaching in Times of Crisis

Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom

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Teaching in Times of Crisis

Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom

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Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods, which are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature from around the world, also provide us with tools to dissect and engage the moments of crises that permeate our contemporary political realities.

The book is written in the form of a series of classroom reflectionsā€”or memosā€”capturing the political environment preceding and proceeding the 2016 US presidential election. It examines the ways in which the ethics involved in reading comparatively can be employed by teachers and students alike to map and foster "lifelines for cultural sustainability" (to borrow the term from Djelal Kadir's Memos from the Besieged City ) that are essential for creating and maintaining a healthy multicultural society.

Nyawalo achieves this through comparative readings of postcolonial films, LGBTQ texts, French slam poetry, as well as episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation, among other materials. The classroom reflections captured in each memo are shaped by the Appalachian setting in which the discussions and lessons took place. Inspired by this setting, the author develops pedagogic ethics of comparisonā€”a method of reading comparativelyā€”which privileges the local educational spaces in which students find themselves by mapping the contested cultural politics of Appalachian realities onto a world literature curriculum.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9781000370577
Edition
1

Index

  1. 120 Beats per Minute (film) 3
  2. 1921 labor uprising 39
  3. 1965 Levin Report 51
  4. 2020 US presidential election, and mail-in ballots 1
  5. academia see US academia
  6. academic institutional networks 21
  7. academic institutions, ties to slavery and 113
  8. academic publications 28
  9. academic space and region, situatedness of 29
  10. Achebe, Chinua, analysis of Conradā€™s Heart of Darkness 38
  11. Adichie, Chimamanda 27
  12. Afghanistan 48
  13. African Americans, civil rights of 1
  14. African continent 10; queer sexualities and spaces on the 68
  15. ā€œAfricanā€ culture, homosexuality and 77
  16. African diaspora 22
  17. African LGBTQ activists 76
  18. African Literature Association 49
  19. African-American community 27
  20. Against World Literature (Apter) 13, 44
  21. Alpert, Avram 9
  22. alterity, delivered 16, 21, 28
  23. alterity, domestication of 28
  24. analysis, classroom dynamics and 29
  25. anti-colonial gestures 74
  26. Antiguan society, postcolonial critique of 20
  27. Anti-Homosexual Bill, in Uganda 75
  28. Appalachia: caricatures of 32ā€“33; as an internal colony 33, 34, 41; as an internal periphery 34, 41; mirroring African continentā€™s queer sentiments 68
  29. ā€œAppalachia: Americaā€™s Mineral Colonyā€ (Weller) 39
  30. Appalachian activists 33, 41; and postcolonial theory 36
  31. Appalachian appropriations 34ā€“35
  32. Appalachian coal miners 38, 39, 41
  33. Appalachian culture 27; denigration of 34
  34. Appalachian dialects 18; denigration of 34
  35. Appalachian English dialect see Appalachian dialect
  36. Appalachian environment 38
  37. Appalachian LGBTQ communities 62; inv...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Memo I The Deliverance or Domestication of Others: Memos from Comparative Literature Classes in Appalachia
  10. Memo II Syllabusing: Mapping Appalachian Texts onto a World Literature Curriculum
  11. Memo III Pedagogies of Cultural Translation: Debating Polygamy, War, and Patriotism in Comparative Literature Classes
  12. Memo IV Syllabusing: Mapping Appalachian Queer Texts onto a Comparative Literature Curriculum
  13. Memo V Monstrous Encounters in Outer Space: A Pedagogic Analysis of Star Trekā€™s Racial Politics from a Comparative Perspective
  14. Memo VI Comparative Feminism and Social Justice: Instrumentalizing the Poetics of Assia Djebarā€™s ā€œThe Woman in Piecesā€ in Experiential-Learning Courses
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index