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Series:   Elements in the Global Middle Ages

Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2025

Geraldine Heng
Geraldine Heng
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin

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Teaching Early Global Literatures and Cultures is a guide to the terra incognita of the global literature classroom. It begins with a framing rationale for why it is valuable to teach early global literatures today; critically surveys the issues involved in such teaching; supplies details of some two dozen texts from which to build a possible syllabus; adds a comprehensive bibliography, and suggestions for student research and student involvement in co-creating course content; and furnishes detailed guidelines for how to teach some 10 texts. It should be possible for faculty and graduate instructors to take this Element and begin teaching its sample syllabus right away.
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Series: Elements in the Global Middle Ages
Online ISBN: 9781009633062
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 29 May 2025

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