...Jennifer J. Smith This article argues that the short-story cycle should be central to teaching American literature, because the genre crystallizes major tensions of American literary history: marginality and inclusion, the individual and the community, and the formation of a national literature...

... in writing workshops. To open new possibilities within workshop pedagogy, the author argues, we need to tell our workshop stories differently: not as method or myth, but as a complex classroom scene. If the Cold War workshop was a cultural weapon, a defense of “American” values, then we should consider...

... and experiences of all course participants, highlights stories of trauma as catalysts for transformation, and outlines a “wounded healer pedagogy”—a pedagogical approach contingent upon interconnectedness, driven by writing purposes, and linked to individual and communal healing processes. © 2013 by Duke...

... as a Predominantly White University.” Journal of Negro Education 69 . 1–2 : 74 – 91 . McKinney Kathryn . 2005 . Being White: Stories of Race and Racism . New York : Routledge . Picca Leslie Houts Feagin Joe R. . 2007 . Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage . New...

...Gary Totten Edith Wharton's lack of recognition as a short story writer depends on several factors, including conflicting theories about short story form and technique, her relationship to literary and cultural history, and her use in literature classrooms. Her problematic relationship to the short...

... . New York: Vintage. Fish Stories: Teaching Children s Literature in a Postmodern World Karen Coats Teaching children s literature in a university English department is an enter- prise fraught with personal and professional risk. No matter how sophisti- cated your theoretical commitments, no matter...

...David Aitchison This article makes a case for introducing the young archive (combining children’s and young-adult literature) into the writing classroom, primarily in the form of school story, to rouse students to rethink and, if necessary, rehabilitate expectations concerning their reading...

...Rebecca Brittenham; Erin McLaughlin; Connie Snyder Mick This project describes three pedagogical practices that use storytelling to engage students in exploring and inventing their shared community. Through service-learning stories of community members, self-analyses, stories of work, and TED-style...

... on phenomenological and metaphorical description; the opportunity to teach writing about music to the general student offered the musician a laboratory for testing this hypothesis. However, the instructor discovered that, not surprisingly, narrative (story-telling) functioned as his students' primary mode...

...Steven J. Corbett This article offers readers a case study of a course-based tutoring partnership that frames and enhances the focus on the stories of three participants—two with learning disabilities. The first part engages arguments involving connections between learning-disabled and typical...

... travel elsewhere but also for the students who read their story in Kerala (India) when they explore the “elsewheres” they create together as a class by translating it into Malayalam. The student-translators are apt to discover that there is more to Jig's unspoken anguish and the largely unspeakable...

... initially approach as if the story is already there, complete, inside their heads. By immersing themselves in material that was personal but also concrete and exterior, students discovered that memoir writing calls for as much exploration outside the self as searching within. As it turned out...

... construct and understand both their own stories and the stories of others. Amber, too, explains that “this ‘I’ is different than the autobiographical ‘I’ because I don't actually know if . . . the thoughts I am thinking about this character are true ” (emphasis added). Despite my attempts to trouble...

...Julia Miele Rodas In March 2013, a New York Times cover story exposing the author's childhood relationship with disability forced Rodas to confront her usual practice of nondisclosure in the disability studies classroom. This article is both memoir and identity theory, a remembrance of the writer's...

... to an international “empathy deficit” and how an attitude of receptivity and co‐intentionality—paired with reading fictional stories about health and illness—can buoy the empathy reserves of both students and teachers. Personally, in the past twenty-four months as a PhD candidate and graduate instructor, I have...

... discovery. The story proves inspiration can come from the most unlikely place— and all it takes is one book or one song for life to change course. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 coming of age eighties nostalgia power of reading musical revelation When...

...Shannon R. Wooden; Maura Spiegel; Sayantani DasGupta Narrative medicine, designed to develop empathic listening skills in healthcare professionals, also helps literature teachers discuss ethics without sacrificing critical rigor. Reading the distasteful narrator of Dostoevsky's challenging story...

... Morrison's short story, “Recitatif,” which ingeniously leads readers to examine their own racial preconceptions. Then, novels ( Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Sent for You Yesterday by John Wideman, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen) are paired...

...Linda K. Hughes This article addresses the teaching of Amy Levy's “Xantippe” (1880), a poem 279 lines long, in an upper-division survey of British literature from 1800 to the present focused on life stories. Though the poem is short enough to be read in a single sitting, it is also long enough...