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(2018) Pedagogies in the flesh, Dordrecht, Springer.
After school one day, Tim Jung, a high school English teacher, and his students were discussing how Muslim American representation in literature courses in the United States is nearly non-existent. Moreover, attempts to negotiate boundaries of whiteness and non-whiteness in K-12 contexts can fail dramatically. In this chapter, Jung explores this flashpoint—a crisis of representation—by examining the consequences of Fanon's phenomenological approach, while also exploring the reality of a lack of diversity in the literary canon using Mill s' The Racial Contract . Jung concludes that conversation with and recognition of diverse perspectives are essential in addressing issues of representation in the classroom.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59599-3_20
Full citation:
Jung, T. (2018)., Literature, the white gaze, and the possibility of conversation, in S. Travis, A. M. Kraehe, E. J. Hood & T. E. Lewis (eds.), Pedagogies in the flesh, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 133-138.