Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum

✍ Scribed by Ato Quayson, Ankhi Mukherjee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 534
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from specific decolonial perspectives, with evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas. The significance of Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum lies in the complete overhaul it proposes for the study of English literature. It reconnects English studies, the humanities, and the modern, international university to issues of racial and social justice. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Identities
Chapter
1 Decolonizing the University
Chapter
2 Decolonizing the English Department in Ireland
Chapter
3 First Peoples, Indigeneity, and Teaching Indigenous Writing in Canada
Chapter
4 Decolonizing Literary Pedagogies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Chapter
5 Genders, Sexualities, and Decolonial Methodologies
Chapter
6 Black British Literature Decolonizing the Curriculum
Part II Methodologies
Chapter
7 Theories of Anthologizing and Decolonization
Chapter
8 Confabulation as Decolonial Pedagogy in Singapore Literature
Chapter
9 Marxism, Postcolonialism, and the Decolonization of Literary Studies
Chapter
10 Against Ethnography: On Teaching Minority Literature
Chapter
11 Orality, Experiential Learning, and Decolonizing African Literature
Chapter
12 Vernacular English in the Classroom: A New Geopolitics of the English Language
Chapter
13 Reading for Justice: On the Pleasures and Pitfalls of a Decolonizing Pedagogy
Part III Interdisciplinarity and Literary Studies
Chapter
14 Literature, Human Rights Law, and the Return of Decolonization
Chapter
15 Decolonizing Literary Interpretation through Disability
Chapter
16 Decolonizing the Bible as Literature
Chapter
17 Decolonizing Literature: A History of Medicine Perspective
Part IV Canon Revisions
Chapter
18 Decolonizing the Medieval Literary Curriculum
Chapter
19 The Decolonial Imaginary of Borderlands Shakespeare
Chapter
20 Decolonizing Romantic Studies
Chapter
21 Victorian Studies and Decolonization
Chapter
22 Decolonizing World Literature
Chapter
23 Decolonizing the English Lyric through Diasporic Women’s Poetry
Chapter
24 Postcolonial Poetry and the Decolonization of the English Literary Curriculum
Chapter
25 Decolonizing English Literary Study in the Anglophone Caribbean
Chapter
26 #RhodesMustFall and the Reform of the Literature Curriculum
Index

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