Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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I'm Not Teaching English Literature, but I Want These Kids Ono Tett
Many of our students, particularly here in education city, by the very nature of having this western american campus, we're just been ushered into this kind of anglo American direction em. So i do try and teach a, generally, a sort of latinamerican, middle eastern and ar south asian er literature. And it does surprise me the extent to which even our cateri students are a sort of relatively ignorant about other arab countries. It's an injustice to writers like musin hamed and e in o salmon ruste and in our junodias and so on. But for the purposes of getting people to to sort of move into the mind sets of other cultures
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