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Article: Zen comedy in postcolonial literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day.'
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Although Commonwealth literature (from the Commonwealth of Nations, hence written in English) and postcolonial literature (translated into English) are taught in many English departments, such courses and collections remain problematic for at least two reasons. First, taxonomically the designations never escape their flawed origins. Thus Jayana Clerk and Ruth Siegel, editors of a recent anthology (1995), virtually apologize for their title, Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World, saying that they "faced the dilemma of using a negative term that derives from a Western perception" (xvii). Similarly, the rationale for grouping works and the related supposition for ...
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Article: A pedagogy of postcolonial literature.
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...Have you ever had that peculiar sense, when teaching postcolonial, multicultural, and other non-canonical literatures to mainstream students, that a tape is being replayed, and you'd really rather move to another song? At first your students embrace the broad concept of "other" literatures with
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