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Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation

Year: 1987

Type: article

Abstract: What does it mean to engage in canon formation at this historical moment? In what ways does the prevailing crisis in the humanities impede or enable new canon formations? And what role do the class and professional interests of the canonizers play in either the enlarging of a canon or the making of multiple, conflicting canons?

Source: Yale journal of criticism/The Yale journal of criticism

DOI: 10.7916/d8xd1bgb

Author: West, Cornel

Language: English

Topic: Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W88528657

FWCI: 31.14

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Cited by: 66

Related to: 10