TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernard,Anna
TI  - Decolonizing literature: an introduction 
T2  - Decolonizing the curriculum
SN  - 9781509544639
U1  - 809.93358 B45 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, Hoboken, NJ
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Decolonization in literature
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Decolonization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Decolonization and literature : a history
Unfinished business : how do we decolonize literature?
Language and translation : what is "English" literature?
'A comparative literature of imperialism' : reading colonial and anticolonial texts together
Telling a collective story : literature and anticolonial struggle
Decolonizing genre : anticolonial understandings of literary craft; All colleges; All programs
N2  - Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader decolonization of literary studies as a discipline; there is much left to be done. How can students and educators best participate in this urgent intellectual and political project? Bernard argues that the decolonization of literary studies requires a change to not only what, but how, we read. In this volume, she explores work that has already been done, both within and beyond the academy, and challenges readers to think about where we go from here. She suggests ways to recognize and respond to the political work that texts do, considering questions of language and translation, comparative reading, ideological argument, and genre in relation to the history of anticolonial struggle. Above all, Bernard shows that although we still have far to go, the work of decolonizing literary studies is already under way. --
ER  -