Teaching 21st Century Genres

Book Overview

Introduction; Katy Shaw.- PART I: CONTEMPORARY GOTHIC.- 1. Genre Trouble: The Challenges of Designing Modern and Contemporary Gothic Modules; Xavier Aldana Reyes.- 2. Dark Chocolate from the Literary Crypt: Teaching Contemporary Gothic Horror; Gina Wisker.- PART II: WRITING RACE.- 3. Teaching Crime Fiction and the African American Literary Canon; Nicole King.- 4. Genre and its 'Diss'contents': Teaching Twenty-First Century Black British Writing on Page and Stage; Deidre Osborne.- PART III: UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS.- 5. Teaching Utopia: from More to Piercy and Atwood; Kate Aughterson.- 6. Other Mothers and Fathers: Teaching Contemporary Dystopian Fiction; Oliver Tearle.- 7. Pathways to Terror: Teaching 9/11 Fiction; Mark Eaton.- PART IV: WORLD LITERATURE.- 8. Teaching Translit: An Unsettled and Unsettling Genre; Bianca Leggett.- 9. Teaching Contemporary Cosmopolitanism; Kristian Shaw.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137553901
• ISBN13: 9781137553904
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"