The Breakfast Show with Tabitha McIntosh - 25-04-2022 - National Literary Canons

Tabitha talks about the role of national literary canons in constructing the ‘imagined communities’ we call nations. Empire, colonisation, völkisch nationalism and miserable reading lists! How do Marine Le Pen and the French far right use the canon to reinforce their islamophobia? What do the US canon wars of the 1980s and 90s tell us about the USA's view of itself in the world? How do other nations with settler-colonial histories like Australia, Canada and Chile construct their school canons? Why isn't there a UK school canon? And much more