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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... vol. 54 no. 2 June 2019 of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature est. 1965 The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
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'What does the recent rise in prominence of moves to decolonize the curriculum in English departments across universities in the UK mean for what we teach, how, why, and to whom?

'I want to start by thinking about the resistance to these moves to decolonize the curriculum. Some of this opposition is a knee-jerk backlash. In the spirit of Thomas B. Macaulay’s disparagement of non-European texts, there remains a lurking suspicion in Senior Common Rooms across the country that literature from the global south does not “merit” consideration alongside “the classics”. This is rarely articulated so bluntly but instead finds expression, often sotto voce, in claims that proposed reforms provide yet another example of “political correctness gone mad”.'  (Ruvani Ranasinha, Editorial introduction)

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The “Unimaginable Border” and Bare Life in Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy, Lucy Neave , single work criticism
'This article offers a consideration of the figure of the feral child in Australian writer Eva Hornung’s Dog Boy(2009), a novel based on stories circulating in the media about children raised by dogs in post-perestroika Russia. The book was praised for its exploration of the liminal space occupied by its protagonist, Romochka, the ecocritical potential in the idea of ferality, and its grimly realistic portrayal of both Romochka’s privations and the comfort offered by the company and loyalty of dogs. I read the novel less optimistically, through Giorgio Agamben’s conception of “bare life” and the metaphorical instrument of its production, the anthropological machine as described in The Open: Man and Animal. Romochka is excluded from political life and from legal protection, yet is subject to state intervention. Further, I argue that the novel is engaged in Australian and international debates about people excluded from political life and from the protection of the law, such as the homeless and refugees, who are nonetheless exposed to state power and surveillance.'

 (Publication abstract)

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