To add to your thoughts on the canon: when we choose to politicize canonical works (which frequently requires a some amount of mental gymnastics) we ignore the fact the there *are* texts written in this century that *are* about race, class, gender, etc.
To add to your thoughts on the canon: when we choose to politicize canonical works (which frequently requires a some amount of mental gymnastics) we ignore the fact the there *are* texts written in this century that *are* about race, class, gender, etc.
To add to your thoughts on the canon: when we choose to politicize canonical works (which frequently requires a some amount of mental gymnastics) we ignore the fact the there *are* texts written in this century that *are* about race, class, gender, etc.