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Decolonizing the Literature Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2020

John K. Noyes
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Abstract

What does it mean to decolonize the literature classroom? This short paper is intended as a personal reflection on teaching as an engagement with the social forces that bring neocolonial relations into the classroom, drawing on my experience teaching literature and literary theory in South Africa and Canada. I explore the idea of decolonizing the classroom as the production of an “outside” that provides meaning for the classroom’s “inside.”

Keywords

decolonizationteaching literaturecritical literacySouth Africaapartheid educationneoliberal universityrace in educationJ. G. HerderI. KantNgũgĩ wa Thiong’oTheodor W. AdornoMax HorkheimerNeville AlexanderJ. M. CoetzeePeter HornJohn HigginsFrantz FanonSteve BikoAchille Mbembe
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 7 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Literary Pedagogy Confronting Colonialism , September 2020 , pp. 266 - 273
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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