Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature.(Book review)

From: American Review of Canadian Studies | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Sugars, Cynthia. ed. Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004. 533 pp. $35.00 paper.

Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature not only claims important space for Canadian literature but also attempts to affirm the future of the postcolonial enterprise of teaching Canadian literature-a venture, editor Cynthia Sugars warns, not to be taken for granted. Setting the tone for this remarkable collection of scholarship, she explains the oppositional nature of teaching Canadian literature as a ...

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