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Latino/a Literature in the Classroom Inoneofthemostrapidlygrowingareasofliterarystudy,thisvolumeprovidesthefirst comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all varieties of learning environ- ments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methodsfortheteachingofnovels,shortstories,plays,poetry,autobiography,testimonial texts, comic books, children’s and young adult literature, films, performance art, and multi-media digital texts, among others. The essays provide conceptual vocabularies and toolstohelp teachers design courses that pay attention to issues of: (cid:1) form across a range of storytelling media (cid:1) content such as theme and character (cid:1) historical periods, linguistic communities, and regions (cid:1) institutional classroom settings. The volume innovatively adds to and complicates the broader humanities curriculum byoffering new possibilities for pedagogical practice. Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University, USA, where he is also Director of the Latino Studies Pro- gram and founder and director of Latino and Latin American Studies Space for Enrichment and Research (LASER). This page intentionally left blank Latino/a Literature in the Classroom fi Twenty- rst-century approaches to teaching Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama O Routledge D N O Taylor &. Francis Group L LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublished2015 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2015selectionandeditorialmatter,FrederickLuisAldama;individualchapters,the contributors TherightofFrederickLuisAldamatobeidentifiedastheauthoroftheeditorial material,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedin accordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilisedin anyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafter invented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageor retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Latino/aliteratureintheclassroom:21stcenturyapproachestoteaching/Frederick LuisAldama[editor]. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Americanliterature--HispanicAmericanauthors--Studyandteaching. 2.LatinAmericanliterature--Studyandteaching--UnitedStates.3.HispanicAmericans inliterature--Studyandteaching.4.HispanicAmericans--Intellectuallife--Studyand teaching.I.Aldama,FrederickLuis,1969-editor.II.Title. PS153.H56L382015 810.9'868073071--dc23 2014036770 ISBN:978-0-415-72420-3(hbk) ISBN:978-0-415-72421-0(pbk) ISBN:978-1-315-85752-7(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byTaylor&FrancisBooks Contents List of illustrations ix Notes on contributors x Introduction: what are we teaching when teaching Latino/a literature? 1 FREDERICKLUISALDAMA PARTI Teaching foundational moments 11 1 Recovered and recovery texts of the nineteenth century 13 JESSEALEMÁN 2 Modernism, modernity, and U.S. Latino/a literature 24 SHEILAMARIECONTRERAS 3 Latino/a queer expressions 32 RICHARDT.RODRÍGUEZ 4 Spanglish in the classroom: a linguistic approach to code-switching in Latino/a literature 41 JENNIFERCAROLINAGÓMEZMENJÍVAR 5 Crisscrossed languages 51 HEATHERALUMBAUGH 6 Transnational forms 64 MONICAHANNAANDJENNIFERHARFORDVARGAS 7 Latino literary nonfiction 78 MICHAELNIETOGARCIA vi Contents PARTII Teaching parts that make up the Latino/a whole 89 8 Teaching Mexican American/Chicano authors 91 CHRISTOPHERGONZÁLEZ 9 Teaching the Hispanophone Caribbean 101 MARÍAACOSTACRUZ 10 Teaching Boricua literature 111 LISASÁNCHEZGONZÁLEZ 11 Central American U.S. Latinos 119 ANAPATRICIARODRÍGUEZ PARTIII Teaching poetry, theatre, and performance arts 129 12 Teaching U.S. Latino/a poetry in the age of social media 131 URAYOÁNNOEL 13 Theater in the Latino/a Literature classroom 141 WILLIAMORCHARD 14 Teaching U.S. Latino/a performance 150 MARIVELT.DANIELSON 15 Performance pedagogy in the Latino literature classroom: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s La Pocha Nostra 159 PALOMAMARTÍNEZ-CRUZ PARTIV Other Latino/a forms and spaces 169 16 Teaching comics by and about Latinos/as 171 FREDERICKLUISALDAMA 17 Crowdsourcing Latino literary study: participatory learning and enhanced e-books 179 ELLENMCCRACKEN 18 Latino/a young adult and children’s literature 192 JACKIEK.WHITE 19 Teaching matters of class and style with chica lit 202 TACEHEDRICK Contents vii 20 Teaching the suburbs 218 RANDYONTIVEROS 21 Defamiliarized bodies: disability studies in the Latino/a literature classroom 227 JULIEAVRILMINICH PARTV Snapshots: Case studies in action 237 22 Teaching Oscar “Zeta” Acosta 239 CHRISTOPHERGONZÁLEZ 23 Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga 243 ELLENM.GIL-GÓMEZ 24 Teaching Ana Castillo: Part 1 249 MAGDALENAL.BARRERA 25 Teaching Ana Castillo: Part 2 255 NANTYNBERG 26 Teaching Sandra Cisneros’s House on Mango Street 260 BRANTM.TORRES 27 Teaching Denise Chávez and Pat Mora 264 ELLENM.GIL-GÓMEZ 28 Teaching Jimmy Santiago Baca 271 CRUZMEDINA 29 Teaching Junot Díaz 275 DAVIDA.COLÓN 30 Teaching Cristina García 279 ELENAFOULIS 31 Teaching Arturo Islas 282 FREDERICKLUISALDAMA 32 Teaching Andrés Montoya 287 STEPHANIEFETTA 33 Teaching Richard Rodriguez 291 JUANVELASCO 34 Teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton 295 AMELIAMARÍADELALUZMONTES viii Contents 35 Teaching Luis Valdez and Zoot Suit 299 MARILYNPATTON 36 Teaching the fiction of Helena María Viramontes 305 PAULAM.L.MOYA Glossary 309 Suggested further reading 328 Bibliography 338 Index 365 Illustrations Figures 4.1 Grosjean’s language choice and code switching diagram 43 4.2 Sample Spanglish grammaticality judgment test 47 17.1 “The Dead” screenshot, Digital Dubliners 182 17.2 Church of San Xavier del Bac, Tucson 185 17.3 Memorial crosses at Santa Clara University for victims killed at the Universidad Centroamericana, El Salvador, 1989 185 Tables 5.1 Narrative Discourse Map of Part I (1989–1972) of Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 55 5.2 Model undergraduate syllabus 63
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