Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolome de Las Casas |
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Editor:
| Arias, Santa Merediz, Eyda M. |
Series title: | Approaches to Teaching World Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-87352-944-0 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
Publisher: | Modern Language Association of America
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $53.00 |
Book Description:
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The work of Bartolomé de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives, understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the apparent contradictions among his evangelising and his varying stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The essays gathered in this volume show teachers how to introduce and engage with Las Casas in a wide range of courses,...
More DescriptionThe work of Bartolomé de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives, understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the apparent contradictions among his evangelising and his varying stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The essays gathered in this volume show teachers how to introduce and engage with Las Casas in a wide range of courses, undergraduate and graduate.