Teaching Texts Materially: The Ends of Nella Larsen’s Passing

College English Jul 2004

Teaching Texts Materially: The Ends of Nella Larsen’s Passing

John K. Young

Abstract

The author suggests that attending to the publishing history of Larsen’s novel and the resulting indeterminacy of its ending(s) offers a concrete example of a materially oriented pedagogy that can illuminate the racial politics behind textual production and its relation to particular historical and cultural moments. He suggests that such a pedagogy offers both another way of understanding the textual contingency emphasized in contemporary theory and a way of further opening up questions of textuality and meaning for students.

Journal: College English
Published: 2004-07-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce20042858
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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