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Voices: Western World Literature in a Learning Community (137) Carol J. Luther Pioneering Cross-Cultural Studies and World Literature at Illinois (145) Michael Palencia-Roth Cultural Encounters in Global Contexts: World Literature as a One-Semester General Education Course (155) John Burt Foster, Jr. World Literature and the Graduate Curriculum (165) Caroline D. Eckhardt “The World’s Story”: Teaching
it means to be human. Teaching World Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations. Useful to instructors of literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies, women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural
Africa (147) Michael A. Gomez Teaching the Mongols, Eurasia, and the World (163) Timothy May The Worlds of South Asia (177) Emma J. Flatt Chinese Literature and the World: The Tang, Song, and Yuan Dynasties (194) Yuanfei Wang Teaching the Malay Annals , or Southeast Asia in the World (207) Derek Heng Jewish History or History of the Jews as Global History (218) Eva Haverkamp-Rott Part III: Habitus
Migration from the Indian subcontinent began on a large scale over 150 years ago, and today there are diasporic communities around the world. The identities of South Asians in the diaspora are informed by roots in the subcontinent and the complex experiences of race, religion, nation, class, caste, gender, sexuality, language, trauma, and geography. The literature that arises from these roots and
therefore serve many teachers, from those who wish to incorporate sections of the Bible into literature courses to those who wish to adopt interdisciplinary strategies for presenting the Bible to their students. The volume, like others in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, “Materials,” surveys translations and editions of the Hebrew Bible
and nonspecialists, Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures addresses such subjects as gender imparity in male-dominated professions; the lives of migrant sex workers and caregivers; the fight against reproductive, family, non-partner, and intimate partner violence; and norms of shame and silence surrounding violence against women. Informed by the author's deep knowledge of literature
Homer’s epics usually appear first in anthologies used for the general literature courses required of most college and high school students throughout the country. His influence extends beyond the confines of English and classics departments into seminars offered in comparative literature, history, philosophy, and the social sciences. This volume in the Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Poetry World Literature
Drama World Literature
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