This article shares tactics for teaching Blu’s Hanging as a text assigned because of its controversy, though not necessarily subsumed by it. The novel is presented so as to grapple with the stakes of ethnic/racial representation alongside careful textual analysis, using the controversy around Yamanaka’s work to “teach the conflicts” of literary studies.
Blu’s Hanging, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Association for Asian American Studies, controversy, Hawai’i, Filipino American, Japanese, sexual predation, close reading
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