{"id":28402,"date":"2021-02-14T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/canons-dont-only-belong-to-dead-white-englishmen-we-have-a-maori-canon-too"},"modified":"2021-02-14T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:00:21","slug":"canons-dont-only-belong-to-dead-white-englishmen-we-have-a-maori-canon-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28402","title":{"rendered":"Canons don\u2019t only belong to dead white Englishmen. We have a M\u0101ori canon too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literary canons have real-world effects \u2013 they steal limelight from everyone else. We can challenge them by drawing attention to how they work<\/p>\n<p>I feel sheepish to admit how deeply affected I was when I encountered the research of Gauri Viswanathan, a professor in English at Columbia University in New York City. In <em>Masks of Conquest: Literary study and British rule in India<\/em>, she traces the history of English back to when it was first systematically taught as a secular discipline. I ask my students: where do you think English was first taught as a discipline? \u201cEngland?\u201d someone will always guess, realising it seems so obvious there must be a trick.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, they\u2019re right. It\u2019s a trick.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/canons-dont-only-belong-to-dead-white-englishmen-we-have-a-maori-canon-too\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary canons have real-world effects \u2013 they steal limelight from everyone else. We can challenge them by drawing attention to how they workI feel sheepish to admit how deeply affected I was when I encountered the research of Gauri Viswanathan, a pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28411,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28402\/revisions\/28411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}