Cultural criticism : past and present / Mary Poovey -- Genre as a social institution / James F. Slevin -- Teaching multicultural literature / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Translation as a method for cross-cultural teaching / Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier -- Teaching in the television culture / Judith Scot-Smith Girgus and Cecelia Tichi -- Multicultural teaching : it's an inside job / Mary C. Savage -- Chicana feminism : in the tracks of "the" native woman / Norma Alarcón -- Current African American literary theory : review and projections / Reginald Martin -- Talking across cultures / Robert S. Burton -- Walter Mitty in China : teaching American fiction in an alien culture / H.W. Matalene -- Text, context, and teaching literature by African American women / Sandra Jamieson -- Sethe's "big, bad" love / Chauncey A. Ridley -- Baldwin, Bebop, and "Sonny's blues" / Pancho Savery -- Filiative and affiliative textualization in Chinese American literature / David Leiwei Li -- The unheard : Vietnamese voices in the literature curriculum / Renny Christopher -- Narrative theory in Naguib Mahfouz's The children of Gebelawi / Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist -- The mixed blood writer as interpreter and mythmaker / Patricia Riley