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"Decolonizing" Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters
- Author(s):
- Sujata Iyengar (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC Shakespeare, RCWS Writing Pedagogies, Teaching Remotely
- Subject(s):
- Paradise lost (Milton, John), Devil in literature, Teaching, Inclusive education, African diaspora--Study and teaching, Language and languages--Etymology
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- Renaissance Society of America -- Spenser and Milton in Ireland (panel)
- Conf. Org.:
- Renaissance Society of America
- Conf. Loc.:
- Remote
- Conf. Date:
- April 2021
- Tag(s):
- Lucius Henry Holsey, video poetry, Poetry of the African diaspora, Presentist Pedagogy, Teaching etymology, Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost, Pedagogy, Inclusive pedagogy, Education of the African diaspora, Etymology
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/8t6b-xp26
- Abstract:
- Describes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton's Paradise Lost and a few other texts.
- Notes:
- Includes some images of slides presented; text and images on slides are paraphrased within the main body-text, and long quotations are interpolated into the main body-text.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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