Overview
- Explores how English studies can be reinvented without relying on extractive colonial legacies of production and labour
- Offers a case study from Portugal of how decolonising the English studies curriculum can work outside the Anglosphere
- Advances research on semi-peripheral institutions, outside of ‘core’ countries in the academic world-system
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What Decolonisation Is and Why English Studies Needs It
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What a Decolonised Curriculum for English Studies Can Look Like
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About this book
This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies — one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots — from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system. It takes the University of Lisbon as a point of departure to explore broader questions of how the field can be rethought from within, through Anglophone (post)coloniality and an institutional location in a department of English, while also considering forces from without, as the arguments in this book issue from a specific, liminal positionality outside the Anglosphere. The first half of the book examines the critical practice of and the political push for decolonising the university and the curriculum, advancing existing scholarship with this focus on semi-peripheral perspectives. The second half comprises two theoretically-informed and classroom-oriented case studies of adaptation of the literary canon, a part of model syllabi that aredesigned to raise awareness of and encourage an understanding of a global, pluriversal literary history.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ana Cristina Mendes is Associate Professor of English Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she teaches courses in cultural studies, visual culture and adaptation, and English history and culture. She is the author of Salman Rushdie in the Cultural Marketplace (2013) and The Past on Display (2013), and editor of Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery
Authors: Ana Cristina Mendes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20286-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20285-8Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20288-9Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20286-5Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature, general, Comparative Literature, Imperialism and Colonialism