Thread: Uk exam boards to drop To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men
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Old 05-26-2014, 04:18 PM   #15
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A crude display of chauvinism from the Tories! I am shocked.

Shouldn't Irish authors be excluded since they aren't British by definition? So no Heaney, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Stoker, Swift, Wilde and so on. What about writers of mixed ethnicity or cultural background? Rushdie? Conrad?

Education is not about inculcating values or particular cultures to the exclusion of others. English literature is a broad church and is all the richer for being so. How can one study TS Eliot as an American poet?
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