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Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson (Stanford University, California)

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.

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'Broad in its geographical and historical scope and drawing on the expertise of scholars from all the continents, Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum will be the primer for English literary studies for many years to come. The book stands out for its diversity of perspectives, its expansive understanding of different forms of decoloniality, and its range of critical references.' Simon Gikandi, Class of 1943 University Professor of English, Princeton University

About Ato Quayson (Stanford University, California)

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. Her books includeUnseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor(2021), which has won Columbia University's Robert S. Liebert Award, andWhat Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon(2014), which won a British Academy prize.She has co-editedA Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture(2024) and editedAfter Lacan(2018). She is currently writingA Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature(2024). AtoQuayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English at Stanford University. His books include the 2-volumeCambridge History of Postcolonial Literature(ed.),Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature, andOxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism. He is Editor of theCambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiryand host of Cambridge Contours: The Cambridge Literary Studies Hour. He has also curated Critic.Reading.Writing, a YouTube channel dedicated to themes in the interdisciplinary literary humanities.

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.

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Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum by Ato Quayson (Stanford University, California)

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2023-11-09

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