Adjectives to use for US English departments' neglect of writing by Anglophone Africans/Asians: provincial/insular or xenophobic/racist?
@zunguzungu I'd go with provincial/insular although other factors also at work.Interest that multiculturalism is seen as something internal
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@HeerJeet@zunguzungu fwiw, we had an Asian Diasporic Lit hire, but Cuomo's refusal to pony up enough $$ for our contract meant pausing it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@zunguzungu I would argue that multicuturalism is a peculiarly American response to the existence of postcolonial literature.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@zunguzungu And, more specifically, a response that is very much bound up in the history of liberalism of its time.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@zunguzungu On the whole I'd say the neglect is a blessing, even though that's not an adjective.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@zunguzungu I mean the history of American campus liberalism, that is, to be even more specific.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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