White Déjà Vu: Troubling the Certainty of the English Canon in Literary Education

Autor/in	Truman, Sarah E.
Titel	White Déjà Vu: Troubling the Certainty of the English Canon in Literary Education
Quelle	In: English in Australia, 54 (2019) 3, S.53-59 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-2147
Schlagwörter	English Literature; Educational Researchers; Critical Theory; Race; Whites; Teaching Methods; Diversity; English Instruction; Racial Bias; Novels; Foreign Countries; Authors; Indigenous Populations; African Americans; Reading Material Selection; Literary Criticism; Psychological Patterns; Australia; Canada; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Englische literatur; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; White; Weißer; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Novel; Roman; Ausland; Author; Autor; Autorin; Sinti und Roma; Afroamerikaner; Literaturkritik; Australien; Kanada; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper is prompted by the author's experience as a researcher of English literary education in three different geographies over the past three years: Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Affect theory, as discussed in this paper, concerns atmospheres, surfaces, bodies, emotions, moods, vicinities and capacities. Drawing on affect theory, critical race scholarship and discussions of whiteness, the author argues that despite continued local attempts at diversification of English literary education, whiteness continues to circulate through and cling to many of the core texts, narratives and messages that make up English literary education (Bacalja & Bliss, 2019; McGraw & van Leent, 2018; McLean Davies, Truman & Buzacott, 2020). This whiteness is general and specific, global and local, obvious and hidden. Rather than attempting to discuss the literary canon as a whole, the author focuses on a specific literary text as an example of how whiteness circulates as neutral or normal in literary education, even in a text that's often framed as helping (white) students learn "about" racism. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Australian Association for the Teaching of English. English House, 416 Magill Road, Kensington Gardens, SA 5068 Australia. Tel: +61-8-8332-2845; Fax: +61-8-8333-0394; e-mail: aate@aate.org.au; Web site: http://www.aate.org.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01