Newsletter SignupIn 1994, the name of the English department at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica was changed to Literatures in English. The “historical change” was a new name: “[F]rom the narrow Department of English, to the more embracing Department of Literatures in English. I, too, tried to persuade Prof. Boyce-Davies to address her cultural politics and correct the error. How ironic it would be if that is, indeed, the positionality of an academic in the field of Global Black Literatures! By putting the U.S. at the center of a movement for transformation in the West, Prof. Boyce-Davies and Prof. Wa Ngugi marginalize visionary academics at The University of the West Indies.

Source: Daily Sun December 11, 2020 21:22 UTC