{"id":12494,"date":"2017-10-26T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/26\/a-decolonised-syllabus-the-bame-authors-you-think-students-should-read\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:56:16","slug":"a-decolonised-syllabus-the-bame-authors-you-think-students-should-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12494","title":{"rendered":"A &#039;decolonised&#039; syllabus: the BAME authors you think students should read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Lola Olufemi\u2019s call to \u2018decolonise\u2019 Cambridge\u2019s English literature curriculum, we asked you to tell us which black and minority ethnic writers should be studied. Here are some of our favourite suggestionsAchebe\u2019s masterpiece is a beautiful, profoundly engaging novel which explores the complex entanglements of history \u2013 the mapping of the space that is Africa and the time that is the era of empire \u2013 and the tragic implications of Europe\u2019s invasion of the continent. Soyinka\u2019s great historical tragedy dramatises, in stage decor and dialogue of exquisite beauty, the dark dilemmas of Yoruba metaphysics and mythology and the consequences of colonial intervention or interruption.Idowu Omoyele, student, originally from Nigeria Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/oct\/26\/a-decolonised-sylllabus-bame-authors-students-should-read\" target=\"_blank\">A &#039;decolonised&#039; syllabus: the BAME authors you think students should read<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Lola Olufemi\u2019s call to \u2018decolonise\u2019 Cambridge\u2019s English literature curriculum, we asked you to tell us which black and minority ethnic writers should be studied. Here are some of our favourite suggestionsAchebe\u2019s masterpiece is a beautiful, profoundly engaging novel which explores the complex entanglements of history \u2013 the mapping of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}