✍️ 'It is a funny sort of “decolonisation” that sees a British university replacing Austen with a writer from the United States, a cultural superpower whose art and literature derives from a very different past to our own.' | Writes Inaya Folarin Iman
It is tempting to wonder what Jane Austen might have made of the times we live in. A master of skewering egos and puncturing pomposity, she would surely have found plenty to amuse her in the decision by Stirling University to remove her from their “special author” module, seemingly in order to achieve the “decolonisation of the curriculum” and “contribute to increased diversity”.
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