This book presents critiques of African American authors, poets, and a composer who contributed to social change, including Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin. It also discusses Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen and his novel The Sympathizer.
Maryann P. DiEdwardo
Maryann P. DiEdwardo is author and editor, and Adjunct Professor in Science Writing and Global Literature. Her most recent book, Hermeneutics Metacognition and Writing (2020), is about the importance of the critique in science writing. She is also the editor of the volume American Women Writers, Poetics, and the Nature of Gender Study (2016). She is a recipient of two awards from the College English Association, and was honored with the Northampton Community College Project Aware Service Award.
Author's books
Teaching Peace through Transformative Literature and Metaethics
This book advocates teaching peace through transformative literary works. It offers original poetry, critiques of fiction and film, and an exploration of peace studies to improve academic skills and foster curiosity, solitude, and self-development through writing.