Cultural Studies and the Reinvention of English Pedagogy in India

被引:2
作者
Pillai, Meena [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Kerala, Ctr Cultural Studies, Sch English & Foreign Languages, Thiruvananthapuram 695034, Kerala, India
[2] Univ Kerala, Inst English, Thiruvananthapuram 695034, Kerala, India
[3] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[4] Concordia Univ, Mel Hoppenheim Sch Cinema, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[5] Univ Sussex, Media Studies Ctr, Brighton BN1 9RH, E Sussex, England
关键词
cultural studies in India; English pedagogy in India; postcolonial pedagogies; Shakespeare in India; comparative literature;
D O I
10.1353/ari.2015.0006
中图分类号
I [文学];
学科分类号
05 ;
摘要
The last two decades have witnessed a crisis in English departments in India. Globalization and the liberalization of the Indian economy spawned a new nationalism that was openly political and overtly critical of the ideological investments embedded in canonical English texts. A perceived need to reinvent English studies to suit the exigencies of the Indian postcolonial milieu encouraged a shift toward cultural studies methodology. This paradigm shift is most evident in the construction of M.A. and Ph.D. syllabi at various Indian universities. Such syllabi have increasingly focused on issues of gender, class, and caste oppression, dismantled the cultural hegemony of British literature, and opened up the canon to include Indian and other non-British texts. This essay analyses English postgraduate course syllabi and studies the critical postcolonial pedagogies adopted by universities in India. These pedagogies foreground cultural studies as an interdisciplinary site for research into new areas of contemporary life, complicating the political assumptions of English studies but nevertheless remaining in dialogue with the parent discipline.
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页码:143 / 173
页数:31
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