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Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers have constructed workable models of teaching literature in multicultural classrooms.
The authors provide an interdisciplinary dialogue on the setbacks, solutions, silences, and successes that often occur in classes of multicultural literature. They all take the stance that definitions of literacy and literature originate as much outside the classroom as within it.
With the inclusion of essays by writers themselves-a feature provided by no other book on this subject-the authors offer a unique vocalization of the nationalistic, economic, empowering, and moral purposes that reading and writing serve. The book also includes a current guide to selected resources in multicultural literature, in hopes of encouraging and facilitating instructors in the transformation of their own literature courses into multicultural ones.
"I like the tone of expectation and hope, the immediacy of the essays." — Virginia Spencer Carr, Georgia State University
Acknowledgments
Introduction Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for Difference
Suzanne M. Miller and Barbara McCaskill
Part I Defining Difference: Perspectives on Writing Literature
1. Seeing and Listening: A Poet's Literacies
Ron Welburn
2. Liberation Literacy: Literacy and Empowerment in Marginalized American Texts
Valerie Babb
3. Literacy, Literature, and the Liberation of the American Bluesvilles: (On Writing Our World into Being)
Reggie Young
4. A Stamp on the Envelope Upside Down Means Love; or, Literature and Literacy in the Multicultural Classroom
Barbara McCaskill
Part II Making Space: Perspectives on Writing Policy
5. The Ideology of Canons and Cultural Concerns in the Literature Curriculum
Alan C. Purves
6. Finding a Common Ground: Integrating Texts and Traditions
Suzanne K. Sutherland
7. Multicultural Literacy and Literature: The Perspective of School Policy
Gregory A. Morris
8. Reading against the Cultural Grain
Phillip C. Gonzales
9. Some Notes on the Canon and Multiculturalism
Catharine R. Stimpson
Part III Making Space for Difference: Perspectives on Teaching
10. Multicultural Literacy and Literature: The Teacher's Perspective
Violet J. Harris
11. Questions of Pedagogy and Multiculturalism
Alpana Sharma Knippling
12. Multicultural Literacy in a Middle School Writing Workshop
Hasna Muhammad
13. Literature about Asians and Asian Americans: Implications for Elementary Classrooms
Junko Yokota
14. Why a Dialogic Pedagogy? Making Space for Possible Worlds
Suzanne M. Miller
Appendix: Selected Resources for Multicultural Education Expanded, Researched, and Annotated by
Kathleen Sims
About the Editors
Contributors
Index