One of the most enduring authors in English Literature has been replaced on the literature course of a university in Scotland in a bid to 'decolonise' the curriculum, it has been reported. The Telegraph said Jane Austen will be replaced by Toni Morrison on Stirling University's English module.
Austen (1787-1817) is famed for such classics as Pride and Predudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility and have been the subject of many TV and film adaptations. Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is an American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel Beloved and the Nobel Price for Literature in 1993.
While Austen wrote about the life of Regency England, Morrison is famed for her novels about the African American experience which also include Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. The Telegraph said Stirling University documents said bringing in Morrison would help 'decolonisation of the curriculum".
