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Article: A pedagogy of postcolonial literature.
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- College Literature
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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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 liberal largesse; they celebrate notions of diversity; they want all racial, economic, and cultural boundaries to fall away so that the common humanity of all people will be revealed. But then they begin reading, and suddenly hackles rise, defenses are up. They start to realize that postcolonial and multicultural literatures are not always benign celebrations of racial and cultural ...