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Page 297 Salah D. Hassan Public controversies about the canon of English literature have now largely subsided, and the ï¬eld of literary study accommodates for the time being works by women, U.S. minorities, non-Europeans, and gays and lesbians. The so-called culture wars of the 1980s left, however, an enduring trace on some texts that broke open the old canon. One of the paradoxical eï¬ects of the emergence of a new canon in English literature during the last two decades has been the unarticulated stigmatization of certain works that were at ï¬rst privileged by attempts to create a more inclusive and egalitarian literary ï¬eld. This stigmatization operates in a number of ways, but it is always associated with the history of political contestation that adheres to those âsubversiveâ texts, which were used to redeï¬ne the parameters of the English literary canon. The most common feature of this stigmatization is the representative role that the previously excluded texts have continued to play after they achieved inclusion in the canon. What needs to be stressed is that especially representative countercanonical works whose early entry into the canon signaled the âmulticulturalizationâ or âdecolonizationâ of English studies exhibit the stigma of canonical disorder,
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture – Duke University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2001
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