Abstract
Based in anthropology (Cole & Knowles, 2001), life history inquiry into literature emphasizes deep understandings of literary characters that are expressed through dramatic performance. For teachers or teacher-educators, life histories offer a powerful teaching strategy. Life histories support locating readers in a particular pattern or “grammar” of events, situations, and goals while also revealing the subjective worlds of characters who are involved in such events. In an undergraduate Honors Literacies course, life histories performances in response to the young adult novel, The Skin I’m In (Flake, 1998), enabled examinations of the complex interaction of characters, their lives, and particular contexts.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 87-96 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | LEARNing Landscapes |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 13 2020 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Education
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