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In Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches award-winning
creative artists and scholars explore the power and complexity of
stories in a variety of genres and cultures. Storytelling is of
crucial importance to narratives of post-coloniality, gender,
history, social status and nationhood. This collection of
analytical and reflective pieces demonstrates the fundamental role
played by imagination in the production and contestation of
culture. The writers show how personal and public truths are
manufactured, modified and undone through processes of
narrativization and storytelling.
Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre showcases a wide array of
recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and
learning in Australasia, in secondary, tertiary and adult
education. Premised on the dissolution of the centre/colony binary
that for so long structured the reception and teaching of
Shakespeare in the colonies, the book explores the use of local
knowledge and experience to invigorate and renew learning. In
elevating the value of the 'local', the book provides models of
educational theory and practice that are transferable and
adaptable. The editors have drawn on contributors with diverse
areas of expertise including dramatic practitioners, historicist
scholars, school teachers and academics who train teachers, and
literary scholars with an interest in new theoretical and practical
approaches to pedagogy.
Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research
into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this
volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable
and adaptable models of educational theory and practice.
This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary
materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and
political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include
post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in
contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and
criticism.
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