ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

What are we teaching when teaching Latino/a literature?

part I|77 pages

Teaching foundational moments

chapter 4|10 pages

Spanglish in the classroom

A linguistic approach to code-switching in Latino/a literature

chapter 5|13 pages

Crisscrossed languages

chapter 7|10 pages

Latino literary nonfiction

part II|40 pages

Teaching parts that make up the Latino/a whole

part III|39 pages

Teaching poetry, theatre, and performance arts

part IV|67 pages

Other Latino/a forms and spaces

chapter 17|13 pages

Crowdsourcing Latino literary study

Participatory learning and enhanced e-books

chapter 20|9 pages

Teaching the suburbs

chapter 21|9 pages

Defamiliarized bodies

Disability studies in the Latino/a literature classroom

part V|72 pages

Snapshots: Case studies in Action

chapter 24|6 pages

Teaching Ana Castillo

Part 1

chapter 25|5 pages

Teaching Ana Castillo

Part 2

chapter 28|4 pages

Teaching Jimmy Santiago Baca

chapter 29|4 pages

Teaching Junot Díaz

chapter 30|3 pages

Teaching Cristina García

chapter 31|5 pages

Teaching Arturo Islas

chapter 32|4 pages

Teaching Andrés Montoya

chapter 33|4 pages

Teaching Richard Rodriguez