Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching

1. Gender, Knowledge, and Economy: Greg Mortenson, Turning Schools into Stones
2. Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science
3. Learning to Be a Psychopath: The Pedagogy of the Corporation
4. Corporate World Literature: Neoliberalism and the Fate of the Humanities
5. Reading the “Other” in World Literature: Toward a Discourse of Unfamiliarity
6. Pedagogy for Healing and Justice through Cambodian American Literature
7. A Moving Pedagogy: Teaching Global Literature through Translation
8. “Re-worlding” in Tsitsi Dangaremba’s Nervous Conditions
9. Teaching World Systems: How Critical Pedagogy Can Frame the Global
10. Object Lessons: Material Culture Approaches to Teaching Global Poetry
11. A Gun and a Book: Teaching Naguib Mahfouz’s The Thief and the Dogs in a Time of Revolution and Occupation
12. Magical Realism: A Gateway out of America and into the World
13. Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Teaching Origin Myths, Material Conditions, and “the Bible as Literature”
14. Cycles of Opportunity: On the Value and Efficacy of Native American Literature in Teaching World Literature to Millennials
15. “The Speculation of Schoolboys”: Confronting the Academy in Ulysses
16. Reaching for the Other in Teaching Aleksandar Hemon’s “A Coin”

Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature enables a better pedagogical praxis by offering both wide-ranging theoretical explorations and results grounded in experience. Part One of the book focuses on various aspects of critical pedagogy and its importance for teaching world literature by offering ten carefully selected chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the fields of critical pedagogy, world literature, and postcolonial studies. Part Two of the book offers six brief, praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level. This comprehensive theoretical and praxis-driven engagement shows how teaching world literature can be accomplished with the goal of changing and transforming the world.