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Teaching Western American literature
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- Summary
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"'Teaching Western American Literature' gives instructors a glimpse into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field"--
Details
- Creator
- edited by Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- ©2020
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9781496221278, 1496221273, 9781496221292, 149622129X, 1496220382, 9781496220387
- OCLC
- on1150874962
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Teaching Western American literature / Brady Harrison -- Teaching the popular Western in the second-level writing course / Chadwick Allen -- Quirky little things and wilderness letters : using Wallace Stegner to teach cultural studies and the responsibilities of citizenship / Melody Graulich -- Teaching the Black West / Kalenda Eaton -- Gender, affect, environmental justice, and indigeneity in the classroom / Amy T. Hamilton -- Teaching queer and two-spirit indigenous literatures, or, The West has always been queer / Lisa Tatonetti -- An interdisciplinary approach to teaching gender in Western American literature / Amanda Gradisek and Mark Rogers -- Moving beyond the traditional classroom and so far from god : place-based learning in the U.S. Southwest / Karen R. Roybal -- Teaching "Quotidian Wests : exploring regionality through the everyday" / Nancy S. Cook -- Western writers in the field / O. Alan Weltzien -- Placing the Pacific Northwest on the literary map : teaching Ella Rhoads Higginson's Mariella, of out-west / Laura Laffrado -- National, transnational, and human rights frames for teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don / Tereza M. Szeghi -- Writing the body : able-bodies, difference, and citizenship in the West : teaching James Welch's The heartsong of charging elk in a global context / Andrea M. Dominguez -- Teaching Western Canadian literature in Croatian context : a case study / Vanja Polić