Many awards and literature celebrations are held this time of year, which makes it a perfect time to look at multicultural literature. The following materials from and provide more resources on the topic of multicultural literature.
The Language Arts article works to answer the question, 鈥淚s transactional reader response theory still a viable and valid theoretical guide for the study of multicultural literature?鈥�
In from Voices from the Middle, the authors challenges her preservice students to expand their understanding of 鈥渃ulture鈥� beyond racially specific contexts and into the many roles people play within the communities to which they belong鈥攍ocal, regional, national, racial, religious, language, etc.
Author Jaime Wood offers middle school English language arts teachers material for teaching poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Li-Young Lee, and Pat Mora in her text . The text includes graphic organizers and other resources. Also see the based on this text.
In the English Journal article the author highlights the use of a cultural-response approach and the article presents several activities that can give teachers confidence to explore the cultural differences in diverse texts and provide 鈥渨ays to help their students discuss these differences and enhance cross-cultural understanding.鈥�
an article from Teaching English in the Two-Year College, presents a project where service-learning was combined with multicultural literature study in a general education first-year course can encourage students to theorize difference from multiple perspectives.
, a text from 楼凤天堂, explores the difference paradox in multicultural literary studies, the seemingly inescapable contradiction between two competing impulses: how do we acknowledge difference when it comes to multicultural literature but simultaneously treat all texts equally and as equal parts of the body of work and discipline long referred to as American literature? Read more in the.
How do you use multicultural literature?