Contemporary American fiction in the European classroom : teaching and texts / Laurence W. Mazzeno, Sue Norton, editors.
Mazzeno, Laurence W., editor.; Norton, Sue, 1964- editor.
2022
PS47.E85 C66 2022
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Title
Contemporary American fiction in the European classroom : teaching and texts / Laurence W. Mazzeno, Sue Norton, editors.
ISBN
9783030941666 (electronic bk.)
3030941663 (electronic bk.)
9783030941659
3030941655
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94166-6
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
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English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-94166-6 doi
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PS47.E85 C66 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.7104
Summary
This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to canonical status and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, USA. He is the author or editor of twenty scholarly books, including Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century (2017) and Victorian Environmental Nightmares (2019). Sue Norton is Lecturer of English at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. She has published numerous articles and essays on topics in American literature as well as on classroom practice. She co-edited European Perspective on John Updike (2018).
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Mazzeno, Laurence W., editor.
Norton, Sue, 1964- editor.
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1. Introduction: American Fiction Abroad
Part I: Why Teach ?
2. Toni Morrisons A Mercy in Hungary: Racialized Discourse in the Classroom
3. Charles Yus Interior Chinatown in Europe as an Evaluative Tool of U.S. Race Relations: "When you think American, what color do you see?"
4. Octavia Butler at a Swedish University: Gender, Genre, and Intercultural Encounters
5. John Updike in Serbia
6. Contemporary American Women Writers in Romania
Part II: How to Teach ?
7. Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace: Contextualizing the "Systems Novel" in Estonia
8. Donald Barthelme at Sorbonne University: Narrative, Internet Memes, and "The Rise of Capitalism"
9. The (Post)Apocalypse in Hungary: American Science Fiction and Social Analysis
10. Gloria Anzaldua at European Universities: Straddling Borders of Fiction and Identity
Part III: What Lessons Might Be Gained by ?
11. Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Americanah in Ireland: "If you dont understand, ask questions"
12. Teaching Philip Roth in Denmark: Its Complicated
13. Teaching Post-Black Aesthetics and the Coming-of-Age Novels of Danzy Senna and Colson Whitehead in Portugal: Reconsidering the Gap
14. Teaching Marilynne Robinson, Democracy and the Mystery of American Belonging Through the PostChristian Eyes of Millennial Brits: "Homesick for a place I never left"
15. Teaching Jesmyn Ward and William T. Vollmann in Finland: Genres of Environmental Justice
Part IV: What Light from the Recent Past?
16. A Backward Glance oer American Fiction in French Academia
17. American Literature: A Tale of Two Polands
Part V: Additional Resources
18. Incorporating Ones Own Literary Criticism into the Curriculum: The Teachable Essay via John Updikes Short Stories
19. Sources for Further Study.

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