The Caribbean and Polynesia Reading the compendium with colonial texts (Jamaica Kincaid and Haunani Trask) did two things to me: It gave me knowledge of something I didn't know anything about before, and it made me feel uneasy. ... This is also where Kincaid lets the reader begin, but soon she lays out small hints that this paradise certainly has its snakes, and that I, the reader, is a potential one. ... The terrible thing is that I've never questioned this, I've never thought of Hawaii as a colonized part of the US, but I realize that it is so, even more than perhaps...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both writers express a sense of continuing loss in the Native American community and indirectly lay blame for this with the federal government and the institutions it has created for the administration and control of Indian affairs, with the land embodying both the traditions of the past and the culture of people. ... According to bibliographical notes in the Abcarian, Alexie replied "I write what I know and I don't try to mythologize myself, which is what some may seem to want, and which some Indian men and women writers are doing we don't live our lives that way". ... When Victor...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate