Shattering the Binary: Teaching Critical Thinking Through John Okada’s No-No Boy

Authors

Sarita Nyasha Cannon, San Francisco State UniversityFollow

First Page

180

Last Page

180

Language

EN

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In this article, I share the philosophical stance that I have developed in relationship to my teaching of U.S. Ethnic Literature and examine the rewards and pitfalls of this path by reflecting on my own experiences teaching John Okada’s No-No Boy in undergraduate American literature courses. By illuminating why texts (especially texts by Ethnic American authors) matter intellectually, emotionally, and politically, this discussion will provide a model for critical and self-reflexive pedagogy at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Recommended Citation

Cannon, Sarita Nyasha (2013) "Shattering the Binary: Teaching Critical Thinking Through John Okada’s No-No Boy," Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies: Vol. 4, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol4/iss1/4