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| | World (Postcolonial) Literature in English |
 | | Similarly, faculty lines in non-British and -American literatures in English remain disproportionately thin, and often require faculty hires to represent vast geographic, cultural and historical swathes in a way that would be unacceptable to scholars specializing in other areas of literary studies, such as twentieth-century American or nineteenth-century British literature. |
 | | The answer might be to approach literature on a global scale, through multilingual canon formation, based on selecting texts which stand out not only within their own linguistic traditions but also in a comparative context. |
 | | The section on West Indian literature is organized into short thematic chapters, dealing with themes like anti-imperialism and nationalism, the treatment of race, the theme of childhood, the treatment of women, the theme of migration, the Rastafarian, post-independence critiques, carnival, and calypso. |
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