Teaching African American Women’s Writing

1. Introduction to Teaching African American Women’s Writing
Gina Wisker

2. Teaching The Color Purple
Gina Wisker

3. Tune In and Turn On: Learning to Listen in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Victoria Bazin

4. Teaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory
Deborah L. Madsen

5. Teaching Four African American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez
Frenzella E. Lancey

6. “This Crisis in the History of the Negro”: Contending Forces at the Nexus of Debate
Joe Sutliff Sanders

7. (En)lightening the Dark Vision: Redemption through Storytelling in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Linda J. Holland-Toll, Angela R. Mullis

8. When the Rainbow Is Not Enough: Using African American Literature to Demystify Race in a Caribbean Tertiary Environment
Paula Morgan

9. Teaching African American Women’s Literature in Australia: Reading Toni Morrison in the Deep North
Carole Ferrier

10. Postgraduate Students Working on African American Women’s Writing: Supervision and the Research Journey
Gina Wisker, Marion Treby

Avainsanat: Literature, North American Literature, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature