Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
New Books in Literary Studies
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The Pressure on Universities to Decolonize the Curriculum
I think in some ways I think that's a productive conversation. One could and should not have a reading list today in any field which is, for example, all books written by men. And as if women never wrote anything. Those pressures on universities to decolonize the curriculum to not actually just read the great white men are good. We don't need artificial means of doing that. But diversity is very good because we can see different things in this book and point it out to one another.
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