Teaching Western American Literature

Brady Harrison, Randi Lynn Tanglen

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781496221278
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

In this volume experienced and new college- and university-level teachers will find practical, adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses in western American literature and western studies. Teaching Western American Literature features the latest developments in western literary research and cultural studies as well as pedagogical best practices in course development. Contributors provide practical models and suggestions for courses and assignments while presenting concrete strategies for teaching works both inside and outside the canon. In addition, Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen have assembled insights from pioneering western studies instructors with workable strategies and practical advice for translating this often complex material for classrooms from freshman writing courses to graduate seminars. Teaching Western American Literature reflects the cutting edge of western American literary study, featuring diverse approaches allied with women's, gender, queer, environmental, disability, and Indigenous studies and providing instructors with entrée into classrooms of leading scholars in the field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1
• 1. Teaching the Popular Western in the Second-Level Writing Course
• 2. Quirky Little Things and Wilderness Letters
• 3. Teaching the Black West
• Part 2
• 4. Gender, Affect, Environmental Justice, and Indigeneity in the Classroom
• 5. Teaching Queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous Literatures, or The West Has Always Been Queer
• 6. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Gender in Western American Literature
• Part 3
• 7. Moving Beyond the Traditional Classroom and So Far from God
• 8. Quotidian Wests
• 9. Western Writers in the Field
• 10. Placing the Pacific Northwest on the Literary Map
• Part 4
• 11. National, Transnational, and Human Rights Frames for Teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don
• 12. Able-Bodies, Difference, and Citizenship in the West
• 13. Teaching Western Canadian Literature in the Croatian Context
• Contributors
• Index
• About Brady Harrison
• About Randi Lynn Tanglen
• Series List