Reading across Cultures stands at the confluence of reader-response theory and multicultural literature or cultural studies—moving both in a new direction. The authors in this collection describe how teachers and students in actual classrooms make and take meanings from a variety of texts. In the process, they take on the complexities of reading, writing, interpreting, and critiquing literature in the context of both culturally diverse and nearly monocultural classrooms, as well as the pluralistic larger society. This book helps provide a better understanding of the role that reading literature can (and cannot) play in helping to transform schools and society.
244 pp. 1997. NCTE and Teachers College Press. Grades K–12. ISBN 0-8077-3551-5.
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