Meeting the challenge of teaching multiculturalismStudents-and their teachers-encountering literature and arts from unfamiliar cultures will welcome the special help this book provides. Instructors who are unfamiliar with Asian Pacific cultures are now being asked to explain a reference to the Year of the Rat; Obon Season; or to interpret a haiku. When Amy Tan refers to the Moon Lady or the Kitchen God; what does she mean? Is Confucianism actually a religion? This book answers these and many other questions; for students; teachers; and the librarians to whom they turn for help.Provides sound information on in-demand topicsThe Companion presents lengthy articles-written specifically for this book-on the topics that unlock the work of a number of contemporary Asian Pacific American writers and artists; for example: Asian naming systems; the "model minority" discourse; Chinese diaspora; Filipino American values; the Confucian family and its tensions; Japanese internment; Maos Great Cultural Revolution; the Korean alphabet; food and ethnic identity; religious traditions; Fengshui and Chinese medicine; Filipino folk religion; Hmong needlework; and reading Asian characters in English; just to name a few.Covers major contemporary writersThe articles are coupled with in-depth studies of the authors most likely to be part of the multicultural curriculum during the next decade; among them Maxine Hong Kingston; Frank Chin; Amy Tan; Younghill Kang; Carlos Bulosan; Jessica Hagedorn; Lawson Fusao Inada; Garret Hongo; David Henry Hwang; Kim Ronyoung; and Cathy Song.Expert contributorsThis volume was created under the supervision of distinguished Advisory Editors from the Asian Pacific American community. The contributors; a Whos Who of Asian Pacific American humanistic scholarship; are frequently the founders of their disciplines; and most are from the ethnic group being written about.Helps students understand arts and literatureMulticultural courses are generally taught by exposing students to literature or arts; with reference to their political; sociological; and historical contexts. This book is designed to help students reading novels; watching films; and confronting artworks with information needs quite different from those of social scientists and historians.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Love itBy StephanieVery informative; read it two times and then practiced; it took some time but if you read carefully youll get it with practice like I did.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. I love this book!By Sarah M.I always wanted to do more research on Native American dance; and this book is perfect for it. It is very informative; with respectful writers who explain aspects of the dance; and show a lot of dance steps in an easy- to -follow how to tutorial. I didnt expect so much when I ordered the book; and I was pleasantly surprised with the detail; the backgrounds of the dance; and the illustrations of the dance. This is a must-have book for American Indian dance fans who want to delve into the culture.