Decolonizing the English literary curriculum

George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify...

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Otros Autores: Mukherjee, Ankhi, editor (editor), Quayson, Ato, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2024.
Edición:First edition
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  • Introduction Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson; Part I. Identities: 1. Decolonizing the university Paul Giles; 2. Decolonizing the English department in Ireland Joe Cleary; 3. First Peoples, Indigeneity and teaching indigenous writing in Canada Margery Fee and Deanna Reder; 4. Decolonising literary pedagogies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Elizabeth McMahon; 5. Gender, sexualities and decolonial methodologies Brinda Bose; 6. Black British literature decolonizing the curriculum Ankhi Mukherjee; Part II. Methodologies: 7. Theories of anthologizing and decolonization Aarthi Vadde; 8. Confabulation as decolonial pedagogy in Singaporean literature Joanne Leow; 9. Marxism, postcolonialism and decolonization of literary studies Stefan Helgesson; 10. Against ethnography: on teaching minority literature Jeanne-Marie Jackson; 11. Orality, experiential learning and a decolonizing African literature at the university of Ghana Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang; 12. Vernacular English in the classroom, a new geopolitics of the ground beneath our feet Akshya Saxena; 13. Reading for justice: on the pleasures and pitfalls of a decolonializing pedagogy Ato Quayson; Part III. Interdisciplinarity and literary studies: 14. Literature, human rights law and the return of decolonization Joseph R. Slaughter; 15. Decolonizing literary interpretation through disability Christopher Krentz; 16. Decolonizing the Bible as literature Ronald Charles; 17. Decolonizing literature: a history of medicine perspective Sloan Mahone; Part IV. Canon Revisions: 18. Decolonizing the literary curriculum of medieval studies Geraldine Heng; 19. The decolonial imaginary of borderlands Shakespeare Katherine Gillen; 20. Decolonizing romantic studies Nigel Leask; 21. Victorian studies and decolonization Nasser Mufti; 22. Decolonizing world literature Debjani Ganguly; 23. Decolonizing the English lyric through diasporic women's poetry Sandeep Parmar; 24. Postcolonial poetry and the decolonization of the curriculum Nathan Suhr-Sytsma; 25. Decolonizing English literary study in the anglophone Caribbean William Ghosh; 26. #RhodesMustFall and the reform of the literature curriculum James Ogude.