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  • Chapter 13 - Reading for Justice

  • from Part II - Methodologies
  • Edited by Ato Quayson, Stanford University, California, Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
    Published online:
    02 November 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023, pp 256-280
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    What does it actually mean to read for justice and what might this entail? Yoking a wide range of theoretical and pedagogical perspectives and hard-won critical insights, this chapter argues that decolonizing the curriculum is not simply additive (”just add Achebe!”). Decolonization provides a vocabulary by which new knowledges of human development may help to reshape the literary curriculum in the direction of greater sensitivity to urgent racial and social justice issues in today’s world. The chapter examines pathways for this change through detailed readings of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (and Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic adaptation), and an examination of the politics of comparison.