Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Gender, Knowledge, and Economy: Greg Mortenson, Turning Schools into Stones....Pages 9-23
Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science....Pages 25-45
Learning to Be a Psychopath: The Pedagogy of the Corporation....Pages 47-62
Corporate World Literature: Neoliberalism and the Fate of the Humanities....Pages 63-73
Reading the “Other” in World Literature: Toward a Discourse of Unfamiliarity....Pages 75-96
Pedagogy for Healing and Justice through Cambodian American Literature....Pages 97-111
A Moving Pedagogy: Teaching Global Literature through Translation....Pages 113-130
“Re-worlding” in Tsitsi Dangaremba’s Nervous Conditions ....Pages 131-147
Teaching World Systems: How Critical Pedagogy Can Frame the Global....Pages 149-164
Object Lessons: Material Culture Approaches to Teaching Global Poetry....Pages 165-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
A Gun and a Book: Teaching Naguib Mahfouz’s The Thief and the Dogs in a Time of Revolution and Occupation....Pages 181-188
Magical Realism: A Gateway out of America and into the World....Pages 189-192
Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Teaching Origin Myths, Material Conditions, and “the Bible as Literature”....Pages 193-199
Cycles of Opportunity: On the Value and Efficacy of Native American Literature in Teaching World Literature to Millennials....Pages 201-211
“The Speculation of Schoolboys”: Confronting the Academy in Ulysses ....Pages 213-219
Reaching for the Other in Teaching Aleksandar Hemon’s “A Coin”....Pages 221-225
Afterword....Pages 227-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-234