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What are two purposes of Asian American Literature? Name how each one is a purpose for a work we have read so far this year.
Answers will vary
Purposes:
-To remember the past
-To give a voice to silent people (with an ignored and unknown history)
-To correct stereotypes (of an exotic and foreign experience)
-To claim America for the thousands of Americans whose Asian faces too frequently deny them a legitimate place (in this country of their birth.)