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In this chapter we discuss how high school students in a predominantly white middle-class Canadian school responded to reading the first chapters of three African novels: A Girl Named Disaster (1996) by American author, Nancy Farmer; The Bride Price (1976), by Ibo writer, Buchi Emecheta; and Buckingham Palace, District Six (1986) by South African writer Richard Rive.
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Johnston, I., Mangat, J. (2012). Telling Too Much. In: Johnston, I., Mangat, J. (eds) Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-705-9_3
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