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2018
Volume 115, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

A high school teacher describes strategies for critical inquiry and discussion that empower students in her postcolonial literature course to enter discourse on global conflicts in an era of institutional neutrality.

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