Critical Pedagogy And Global Literature: Worldly Teaching (new Frontiers In Education, Culture, And Politics)

Critical Pedagogy And Global Literature Enables A Better Pedagogical Praxis By Offering Both Wide-ranging Theoretical Explorations And Results Grounded In Experience. Part One Of The Book Focuses On Various Aspects Of Critical Pedagogy And Its Importance For Teaching World Literature By Offering Ten Carefully Selected Chapters Written By Established And Emerging Scholars In The Fields Of Critical Pedagogy, World Literature, And Postcolonial Studies. Part Two Of The Book Offers Six Brief, Praxis-driven Essays By Instructors Who Have Taught World Literature Courses At The University Level. This Comprehensive Theoretical And Praxis-driven Engagement Shows How Teaching World Literature Can Be Accomplished With The Goal Of Changing And Transforming The World. Introduction / Masood Ashraf Raja -- Gender, Knowledge, And Economy: Greg Mortenson, Turning Schools Into Stones / Robin Truth Goodman -- Educating For Cosmopolitanism: Lessons From Cognitive Science / Mark Bracher -- Learning To Be A Psychopath: The Pedagogy Of The Corporation / Kenneth Saltman -- Corporate World Literature: Neoliberalism And The Fate Of The Humanities / Jeffrey R. Di Leo -- Reading The 'other' In World Literature: Towards A Discourse Of Unfamiliarity / Swaralipi Nandi -- Pedagogy For Healing And Justice Through Cambodian American Literature / Mary Thi Pham And Jonathan H.x. Lee -- A Moving Pedagogy: Teaching Global Literature Through Translation / Kyle Wanberg -- 're-worlding' In Tsitsi Dangaremba' Nervous Conditions / Dr. Linda Daley -- Teaching World Systems: How Critical Pedagogy Can Frame The Global / David B. Downing -- Object Lessons: Material Cultural Approaches To Teaching Global Poetry / Hella Rose Bloom -- A Gun And A Book: Teaching Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief And The Dogs In A Time Of Revolution And Occupation / Jessica Hindman -- Metaphor In Magical Realism: A Gateway Out Of America And Into The World / Tessa Mellas -- Making The Familiar Unfamiliar: Teaching Origin Myths, Material Conditions, And The Bible As Literature / Hillary Stringer -- Cycles Of Opportunity: On The Value And Efficacy Of Native American Literature In Teaching World Literature To Millennials / Marnie M. Sullivan -- The Speculation Of Schoolboys: Confronting The Academy In Ulysses / Matthew Mckenzie Davis -- Reaching For The Other In Teaching Aleksandar Hemon's 'a Coin' / Zach Vandezande. Edited By Masood Ashraf Raja, Hillary Stringer, And Zach Vandezande. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Half-Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Introduction 10 Part I Theory 16 1 Gender, Knowledge, and Economy: Greg Mortenson, Turning Schools into Stones 18 2 Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science 34 3 Learning to Be a Psychopath: Th e Pedagogy of the Corporation 56 4 Corporate World Literature: Neoliberalism and the Fate of the Humanities 72 5 Reading the “Other” in World Literature: Toward a Discourse of Unfamiliarity 84 6 Pedagogy for Healing and Justice through Cambodian American Literature 106 7 A Moving Pedagogy: Teaching Global Literature through Translation 122 8 “Re-worlding” in Tsitsi Dangaremba’s Nervous Conditions 140 9 Teaching World Systems: How Critical Pedagogy Can Frame the Global 158 10 Object Lessons: Material Culture Approaches to Teaching Global Poetry Hella Rose Bloom 174 Part II Praxis 188 11 A Gun and a Book: Teaching Naguib Mahfouz’s Th e Th ief and the Dogs in a Time of Revolution and Occupation 190 12 Magical Realism: A Gateway out of America and into the World 198 13 Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Teaching Origin Myths, Material Conditions, and “the Bible as Literature” 202 14 Cycles of Opportunity: On the Value and Effi cacy of Native American Literature in Teaching World Literature to Millennials 210 15 “Th e Speculation of Schoolboys”: Confronting the Academy in Ulysses 222 16 Reaching for the Other in Teaching Aleksandar Hemon’s “A Coin” 230 Afterword 236 List of Contributors 238 Index 240 In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level.