Teach the Nation: Public School, Racial Uplift, and Women's Writing in the 1890s - Couverture rigide

Murdy, Anne-Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415935342 ISBN 13 : 9780415935340

Editeur : Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation, Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s, Murdy proves that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected and argues that their current lives must be regarded as mutually dependent. Teach the Nation offers a new understanding of literacy and pedagogical study and identifies how literary history enhances current feminist and anti-racist teachings. By excavating notions about education in the 1890s-as turbulent a time for American public education as today-Murdy asks readers to step back from this historical moment to better understand the contexts and institutions within which we theorize learning and teaching. In doing so, she compels readers to reimagine the potential for gaining social power through education and literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anne-Elizabeth Murdy

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415935342
• ISBN 13: 9780415935340
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
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