Negotiations A Reader for Writers

This thematically arranged reader offers a view of the interaction between the theory of reading/responding to a text and the actual practice each individual brings to the process. The first six chapters focus on the different ways to read a text, while the second half of the book contains 60 multi-genre selections. Many of the readings are of texts by non-white and non-male writers or both, and show how cultural and social background affects literature.;Among the genres featured are: short stories, essays, autobiographies, biographies, journalistic pieces, historical essays, folkloric works, literary criticism, and semiotic analysis.;The book aims to weave recurring themes/works throughout, (Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants", which is introduced in chapter 1, is then used in chapters 2 and 3 to illustrate concepts, lending additional unity to the reading and to classroom discussion).;The book includes writing assignments ranging from one or two word responses to journal entries, to documented essays and imaginative eleborations on a theme.;An instructor's manual is included.