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Article: Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature.(Book review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
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- June 22, 2006
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Sugars, Cynthia. ed. Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004. 533 pp. $35.00 paper.
Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature not only claims important space for Canadian literature but also attempts to affirm the future of the postcolonial enterprise of teaching Canadian literature-a venture, editor Cynthia Sugars warns, not to be taken for granted. Setting the tone for this remarkable collection of scholarship, she explains the oppositional nature of teaching Canadian literature as a political act toward decolonizing the mind. In the introduction, Sugars draws a direct ...