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Alternative Readings and Readers: Literature as Critical Identity Work
Sun, April 15, 10:35am to 12:05pm, New York Marriott Marquis, Floor: Seventh Floor, DuffySession Type: Paper Session
Abstract
This session will explore how literature both limits and expands our collective understanding of identity in relationship to literacy practices. Specifically, papers will consider the impacts of race, class, ethnicity, and queerness in regards to both readers and texts.
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Papers
How Dialogues Facilitate High School Students' Responses to Poetry - Daniela Cavalli, University of Pennsylvania
"This Idea Came From a Book Called Crooked River": Queering "Straight" Literature in K–5 Classrooms - Caitlin Law Ryan, East Carolina University; Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth, Western Michigan University
"I See Part of Me in This Book": Migrant Farmworkers Appraise Migrancy-Themed Picture Storybooks - Alma Stevenson, Georgia Southern University; Scott A. Beck, Georgia Southern University
Waking Up From the American Dream: Disturbing Class in Children's Literature - Maria Jose Botelho, University of Massachusetts - Amherst