Reflections on reading and teaching contemporary african american prose

• Authors: Penier Izabella
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this essay is to present an overview of shifting paradigms in Black Studies. I will critically look back on my own research on African American women writers of the so-called Second American Renaissance in an effort to determine to what extent theory can alter interpretation, and how theoretical position can ‘rewrite’ or ‘transform’ the books we read and analyze. I will show that my engagement with diasporic and postcolonial theories has enabled me a more polemical formulation of contemporary Afro-American women’s prose. I will also analyze how my experience with applying different literary and cultural theories and criticism impacted on my teaching of black American literature and literature in general.

Keywords

EN

contemporary African American female writing; black literary criticism; cultural nationalism; nation-and-gender theories; British cultural studies; teaching African American prose

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Płocku
• Journal: Społeczeństwo. Edukacja. Język
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 141-150

Contributors

author

Penier Izabella

• Uniwersytet Łódzki