Decolonising English Studies from the Semi-Periphery

by Ana Cristina Mendes

Book Overview

This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies - one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots - from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system. It takes the University of Lisbon as a point of departure to explore broader questions of how the field can be rethought from within, through Anglophone (post)coloniality and an institutional location...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031202880
• ISBN13: 9783031202889
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"