This book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media, sustained examinations of pedagogies involved in decolonising the literature at university level are still lacking in English and related subjects. This book makes a crucial contribution to these evolving discussions, presenting current and critically engaged pedagogical scholarship on decolonising the literature curriculum. Offering a broad spectrum of accessible chapters authored by experienced national and international academics, the book is structured into two parts, Texts and Contexts, presenting case studies on decolonising the literature curriculum which range from the undergraduate classroom, university writing centres, through to the literary doctorate.
1. Decolonising Pedagogical Approaches to Postcolonial Queer
Texts; Shamira A. Meghani.- 2. Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the
Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsies Home Fire and Bolu Babalolas
Love in Colour; Charlotte Beyer.- 3. Smart Latinas are Latinas: On Teaching
Chicana/Latina Young Adult (YA) Literature as Feminist Resistance; Cristina
Herrera.- 4. Hard and Rocky Soil: Decolonising the General Education
Introduction to Literature Course with August Wilsons Fences; Cheryl R.
Hopson.- 5. Redesigning the Curriculum: Teaching Multicultural Literature in
Non-Native English-Speaking University Settings in Turkey and Italy; Sebnem
Toplu.- 6. Decolonising Wuthering Heights in the Semi-peripheral
Classroom; Ana Cristina Mendes.- 7. Culinary Cultures: Theorising
Postcolonial Food Cultures; Sarah Lawson.- 8. A Border-Crossing Teaching
Body: Reflections on a Decolonial Pedagogy for Literary Studies in a South
African Context; Sam Naidu.- 9. Teaching Academic Literacy in the
Co-curriculum: Creating Culturally Safe Spaces; Arlene Harvey and Gabrielle
Russell.- 10. Decolonising the Literary Doctorate; Gina Wisker.
Charlotte Beyer is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.
