Caroline S. Conzelman, a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said her first thought was that she wouldn’t change how she used the book, because it still captures the essence of the emotional memory of being colonized. But now, she said: I will have them read what he says about it. It’s good for students to see that writers can think critically about their own work and go back and revise what they meant.

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