Decolonizing the Literature Classroom. (September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Noyes, John K.
• Is Part Of: Cambridge journal of postcolonial literary inquiry. Volume 7:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: 266
• Page End: 273
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Subjects: decolonization, -- teaching literature, -- critical literacy, -- South Africa, -- apartheid education, -- neoliberal university, -- race in education, -- J. G. Herder, -- I. Kant, -- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, -- Theodor W. Adorno, -- Max Horkheimer, -- Neville Alexander, -- J. M. Coetzee, -- Peter Horn, -- John Higgins, -- Frantz Fanon, -- Steve Biko, -- Achille Mbembe; Postcolonialism in literature -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; 809.93358
• DOI: 10.1017/pli.2020.11
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-2614

Abstract

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."