Issue 1 of Contingencies is now available and features articles by scholars of literature and foreign language pedagogy. To celebrate, we hosted a special event on Friday, April 16, 2021.
Contingencies managing editor Jennifer Zoble made opening remarks, which were followed by a conversation on decolonizing the university featuring:
Dr. Priyamvada Gopal
University of Cambridge
Dr. Satya Mohanty
Cornell University
Recommended Reading by Dr. Priyamvada Gopal and Dr. Satya Mohanty
Dr. Priyamvada Gopal
“Why can’t Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill?”
The Guardian, March 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/17/why-cant-britain-handle-the-truth-about-winston-churchill
“Britain’s story of empire is based on myth. We need to know the truth.”
The Guardian, July 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/06/britains-story-empire-based-myth-need-know-truth
“Yes, we must decolonise: our teaching has to go beyond elite white men.”
The Guardian, October 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/27/decolonise-elite-white-men-decolonising-cambridge-university-english-curriculum-literature
“Redressing anti-imperial amnesia”
Race & Class, January 2016
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306396815608127
Dr. Satya Mohanty
“Literature to combat cultural chauvinism”
Frontline, April 2012
https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30165017.ece
“Epilogue: Colonial Legacies, Multicultural Futures: Relativism, Objectivity, and the Challenge of Otherness”
PMLA, January 1995
https://www.jstor.org/stable/463198?origin=JSTOR-pdf&seq=1
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