Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Author: Supriya M. Nair
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 160329161X

This volume recognizes that the most challenging aspect of introducing students to anglophone Caribbean literature--the sheer variety of intellectual and artistic traditions in Western and non-Western cultures that relate to it--also offers the greatest opportunities to teachers. Courses on anglophone literature in the Caribbean can consider the region's specific histories and contexts even as they explore common issues: the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and colonial education; nationalism; exile and migration; identity and hybridity; class and racial conflict; gender and sexuality; religion and ritual. This volume considers how the availability of materials shapes syllabuses and recommends print, digital, and visual resources for teaching. The essays examine a host of topics, including the following: the development of multiethnic populations in the Caribbean and the role of various creole languages in the literature oral art forms, such as dub poetry and reggae music the influence of anglophone literature in the Caribbean on literary movements outside it, such as the Harlem Renaissance and black British writing Carnival religious rituals and beliefs specific genres such as slave narratives and autobiography film and drama the economics of rum Many essays list resources for further reading, and the volume concludes with a section of additional teaching resources.

The Handbook on Caribbean Education

The Handbook on Caribbean Education
Author: Eleanor J. Blair
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1648024114

This book brings together leading scholars of Caribbean education from around the world. Schooling continues to hold a special place both as a means to achieve social mobility and as a mechanism for supporting the economy of Caribbean nations. In this book, the Caribbean includes the Greater and Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles is made up of the five larger islands (and six countries) of the northern Caribbean, including the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. The Lesser Antilles includes the Windward and Leeward Islands which are inclusive of Barbados, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago along with several other islands. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on the various social and cultural issues that define Caribbean education and schooling. The Handbook on Caribbean Education fills a void in the literature and documents the important research being done throughout the Caribbean. Creating a space where Caribbean voices are a part of “international” discussions about 21st century global matters and concerns is an important contribution of this work.

Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature

Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature
Author: Lorna Down
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789766407384

Compilation of essays on innovative and significant approaches to pedagogy of Caribbean literature by three generations of Caribbean teacher-writers.

Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts

Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts
Author: Emily O'Dell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1793607168

Teaching, Reading, and Theorizing Caribbean Texts explores alternative approaches to Caribbean texts from transnational and multilingual perspectives. The authors query what new systems and criteria can be implemented to rethink and remodel our theoretical and pedagogical corpus and alter the lenses through which we study Caribbean texts. Pulling from the Caribbean’s global diaspora, the authors examine writers such as Roxane Gay, Esmeralda Santiago, Wilson Harris, and Gloria Anzaldúa in order to resituate the place of Caribbean texts in the classroom. Each chapter argues for a reunification of Caribbean literature studies—rather than studying this body of text only in terms of a certain aspect of its history or culture, the authors necessitate the importance of analyzing these works from a pan-Caribbean perspective. This collection discusses the ideas of transcending individual disciplines and specialties to create global theories, overcoming pedagogical challenges when bringing Caribbean texts into the classroom, and (re)reading texts with the purpose of discovering new symbols, themes, and meanings.

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Author: Michael A. Bucknor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136821740

This Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.

Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature

Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2020
Genre: Authors, West Indian
ISBN: 9789766407407

Compilation of essays on innovative and significant approaches to pedagogy of Caribbean literature by three generations of Caribbean teacher-writers.

The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature

The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature
Author: Alison Donnell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1996
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9780415120494

An outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. The editors demonstrate that these singular voices have emerged out of a wealth of literary tradition and not a cultural void.