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- Wednesday, January 5, 2011
- Dehegemonizing the Canon of American Literature for Arab
- Published at:An-Najah Journal of Humanities, Volume 24, Issue 9, 2010. Pages 2437-2456
Abstract
The sociopolitical realities in the Arab World and their relationship
with the United States require that Arab professors of American literature
at Arab Universities revise their syllabi and textbooks so that they do not
serve the American hegemony on the Arab World. The researcher calls
for preparing an anthology of American literature that responds to the
national aspirations of Arab students without compromising quality or
the inclusiveness of the American canon. The anthology that the
researcher envisions is that which would include the giants of American
literature along with a significant representation of ethnicity and gender;
it would introduce American literature to students in an authentic and
critical manner that revises the standing canon in favor of reconstructing
a canon that is more relevant to Arab students in Arab universities and
that prepares them to be citizens of the world.
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