Navajo Students and "Postcolonial" Literature.

Lucas, Kurt

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Publication Date: 1990

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Navajo Students and "Postcolonial" Literature.

Lucas, Kurt

English Journal, v79 n8 p54-58 Dec 1990

Shares how a 12-week course for second-semester seniors called "Cultures in Conflict: Post-Colonial Literature from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific" offers students on a Navajo reservation important insights into how other peoples have dealt with racial misunderstandings, inequities of power, and shifts in traditional values and beliefs. (MG)

Descriptors: African Literature, Course Descriptions, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, High Schools, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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