In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods to the teaching of the novel, short story, plays, poetry, autobiography, testimonial, comic book, children and young adult literature, film, performance art, and multi-media digital texts, among others. The essays provide conceptual vocabularies and tools to help teachers design courses that pay attention to:
- Issues of form across a range of storytelling media
- Issues of content such as theme and character
- Issues of historical periods, linguistic communities, and regions
- Issues of institutional classroom settings
The volume innovatively adds to and complicates the broader humanities curriculum by offering new possibilities for pedagogical practice.
Author(s): Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 380
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction: what are we teaching when teaching Latino/a literature?
Part I: Teaching foundational moments
1. Recovered and recovery texts of the nineteenth century
2. Modernism, modernity, and U.S. Latino/a literature
3. Latino/a queer expressions
4. Spanglish in the classroom: a linguistic approach to code-switching in Latino/a literature
5. Crisscrossed languages
6. Transnational forms
7. Latino literary nonfiction
Part II: Teaching parts that make up the Latino/a whole
8. Teaching Mexican American/Chicano authors
9. Teaching the Hispanophone Caribbean
10. Teaching Boricua literature
11. Central American U.S. Latinos
Part III: Teaching poetry, theatre, and performance arts
12. Teaching U.S. Latino/a poetry in the age of social media
13. Theater in the Latino/a Literature classroom
14. Teaching U.S. Latino/a per
formance
15. Performance pedagogy in the Latino literature classroom: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s La Pocha Nostra
Part IV: Other Latino/a forms and spaces
16. Teaching comics by and about Latinos/as
17. Crowdsourcing Latino literary study: participatory learning and enhanced e-books
18. Latino/a young adult and children’s literature
19. Teaching matters of class and style with chica lit
20. Teaching the suburbs
21. Defamiliarized bodies: disability studies in the Latino/a literature classroom
Part V: Snapshots: Case studies in action
22. Teaching Oscar "Zeta” Acosta
23. Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga
24. Teaching Ana Castillo: Part 1
25. Teaching Ana Castillo: Part 2
26. Teaching Sandra Cisneros’s House on
Mango Street
27. Teaching Denise Chávez and Pat Mora
28. Teaching Jimmy Santiago Baca
29. Teaching Junot Díaz
30. Teaching Cristina García
31. Teaching Arturo Islas
32. Teaching Andrés Montoya
33. Teaching Richard Rodriguez
34. Teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
35. Teaching Luis Valdez and Zoot Suit
36. Teaching the fiction of Helena María Viramontes
Glossary
Suggested further reading
Bibliography
Index
