Using key passages to understand literature, Theory and criticism / Barry Laga

1 Becoming a subject;
2 Scripting identity;
3 Doing not describing;
4 Enjoying the carnivalesque;
5 Reading as writing;
6 Simulating the real;
7 Creating a space between;
8 Performing gender;
9 Locating trauma;
10 Intersecting identities;
11 Locating alterity;
12 Poaching texts;
13 Cultivating rhizomes;
14 Reconciling double consciousness;
15 Shocking readers;
16 Joining power and knowledge;
17 Revealing the uncanny;
18 Questioning human/nonhuman boundaries
19 Historicizing and contextualizing
20 Signifying through time;
21 Thinking ecologically;
22 Recognizing conceptual metaphors;
23 Representing disability;
24 Losing and recovering our sovereignty;
25 Resisting the dominant culture;
26 Adapting and appropriating;
27 Describing homosocial relationships;
28 Defamiliarizing the familiar;
29 Questioning gender binaries;
30 Building on another's work: identifying

Using Key Passages to Understand Literature, Theory and Criticism is a completely fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning literary theory: using short passages of theory to make sense of literary and cultural texts. It focuses on the key concepts that help readers understand literature and cultural events in new and provocative ways.