Studying Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve from a Ghanaian Context
Studying Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve from a Ghanaian Context
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2023
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Ben -Daniel, Faith
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This article outlines the practical pedagogical approach used in the teaching of
Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve in a Ghanaian university, and how
the chosen approach, which involves some amount of “enactment” of the text,
guides students in focusing on the nuances encountered as part of their study of
the text under the “World Literature” course. This article highlights how professors
incorporate “enactment” as an approach to raise and sustain students’ interest
in the text and to further guide students in identifying and discussing universal
subject matters such as marriage, misogyny, and human fellowship from the text.
Employing enactment creates in students a sense of ownership of the text and
involvement in its study. The discussion concludes by highlighting the importance
of maintaining such foreign texts in the academic curriculum, but not losing sight
of the challenges academic faculties face by doing so
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Twain, M. (1990). The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Vol. 3). Samuel French, Inc..