Approaches to teaching Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and other works / edited by John Lowe.

Other author Lowe, John, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
Descriptionviii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesApproaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133
Approaches to teaching world literature. ^A223695
Contents Teaching Their eyes were watching God and the process of canon formation / Genevieve West -- False gods and "Caucasian characteristics for all": Hurston's radical vision in Their eyes were watching God / Gay Wilentz -- History, mythology, and the proletarian in Their eyes were watching God / Carla Cappetti -- Laughin' up a world: humor and identity in Their eyes were watching God / John Lowe -- Celebrating bigamy and other outlaw behaviors: Hurston, reputation, and the problems inherent in labeling Janie a feminist / Trudier Harris -- Vehicles for their talents: Hurston and Wright in conflict in the undergraduate literature classroom / James C. Hall -- The seams must show: Their eyes were watching God as an introduction to deconstruction / Dana A. Williams -- Modes of black masculinity in Jona's gourd vine / John Lowe -- Freedom and identity in Hurston's Moses, man of the mountain / Carolyn M. Jones -- Politics of self: individualist perspectives in Seraph on the Suwanee / Deborah G. Plant -- Polyvocality and performance in Mules and men / Kimberly J. Banks and Cheryl A. Wall -- Between mimesis and mimicry: teaching Hurston's Tell my horse / Annette Trefzer -- Telling tales in Dust tracks on a road: Hurston's portrait of an artist / Kimberly D. Blockett and Nellie Y. McKay -- From gilded garden to golden anniversary: teaching Hurston's "The gilded six-bits" / Margaret D. Bauer -- Africanisms in Hurston's The first one, color struck, and mule bone / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formAufsatzsammlung.
LCCN 2009021403
ISBN9781603290432 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1603290435 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781603290449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1603290443 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3515.U789 Z625 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold