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From: "J. Brian Wagaman H-PCAACA" <wagaman@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
List Editor: "J. Brian Wagaman H-PCAACA" <wagaman@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: (1): Request for Pop Cult teaching intro
Author's Subject: (1): Request for Pop Cult teaching intro
Date Written: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:39 -0500
Date Posted: Sat, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:39 -0500

Easiest way that I know is to teach the plays in historical perspective.
For example, "For Colored Girls" could only have been produced after the
sexual revolution, the feminist revolution, and the civil rights movement.
If you put literature (especially that which was meant to appeal to a wide
audience) in its social and historical context, it accomlishes the goal of
teaching popular culture and literary analysis.

Sarah Trainin
SCC
Lincoln, NE
<trainin@yahoo.com>

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