TY  - GEN
T1  - Reading practices, postcolonial literature, and cultural mediation in the classroom
A1  - Johnston, Ingrid, 1946-
A2  - Mangat, Jyoti
LA  - English
PP  - Rotterdam ; Boston
PB  - Sense Publishers
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn782043019
AB  - In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultural mediation for readers from various backgrounds. The studies described in the five chapters of the book explore the spaces of convergence of identity, culture and literature with students and teachers in high school contexts and undergraduates in university settings. In each study, readers are responding to texts that are culturally distant from their own literary and experiential histories. An objective of each study was to consider the nature of the cultural locations of the reader and the text, and the interstitial spaces between these locations. The book interrogates readers' attempts to negotiate cultural difference in literary contexts and questions how this negotiation requires reading practices traditionally ignored in North American classrooms. The book will offer educators at the secondary and post-secondary levels rich material to draw upon for a rethinking of the school curriculum and will be of interest to scholars of postcolonial and literary studies.
OP  - 78
CN  - PR35 .J64 2012eb
SN  - 9789460917059
SN  - 9460917054
SN  - 9789460917042
SN  - 9460917046
SN  - 9789460917035
SN  - 9460917038
KW  - English literature : Minority authors : Study and teaching (Secondary)
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature : Study and teaching (Secondary)
KW  - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature : Étude et enseignement (Secondaire)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - Sciences sociales.
KW  - Sciences humaines.
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Education.
KW  - Literacy.
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -