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Part One: Front Matter and Chapter I

• The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Akhtar, Ayad. Homeland Elegies. New York; Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

• An epigraph from Alison Bechdel is presented prior to the table of contents.

• In a prologue titled “Overture: To America,” the narrator rehearses the background of his former professor, Mary Moroni.

• Ayad notes one of Moroni’s assertions: the United States remains a colony in service to the conceptual fatherland of the American Self; the comment is explicated.

• Moroni’s difficulties following remarks regarding the United States’ involvement in Desert Storm are rehearsed; a ROTC student took issue and lodged complaints and protests.

• Differences between the undergraduate college environment of the 1990s and the latter 2010s are noted.

• Differences between the understanding of the United States Moroni advances and that which the narrator had previously held are detailed...

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