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Essays on Teaching the American Literatures
(from the Heath Anthology Newsletter)
Teaching Asian American Literature
by Amy Ling
University of Wisconsin-Madison
I find it useful to begin my Introduction to Asian American literature classes with a discussion of terminology. First, I deconstruct the term oriental, explaining that as a signifier of someone or something of Asian origin it is no longer viable since it is burdened with all the negative connotations of inferiority, irrat ...
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