{"id":1423891,"date":"2022-04-07T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423891"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:00:23","slug":"no-sense-and-sensibility-jane-austen-cancelled-in-university-decolonise-the-curriculum-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-sense-and-sensibility-jane-austen-cancelled-in-university-decolonise-the-curriculum-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"No Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen Cancelled in University &#039;Decolonise the Curriculum&#039; Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-sense-and-sensibility-jane-austen-cancelled-in-university-decolonise-the-curriculum-drive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In response to the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement, celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course by African American writer Toni Morrison in order to further the \u201cdecolonisation of the curriculum\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An English module at Scotland\u2019s Stirling University has decided to ditch <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> author Jane Austen in favour of left-wing poet and novelist Toni Morrison, whose works are focussed around racism against black people in the United States and who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2016\/11\/22\/toni-morrison-white-voters-embraced-trump-fear-collapse-white-privilege\/\">blamed<\/a> Donald Trump\u2019s presidential victory on white supremacy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to internal documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/04\/05\/jane-austen-dropped-universitys-english-course-decolonise-curriculum\/\">seen<\/a> by <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, Stirling University scrapped the <em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em> writer in the lit programme in favour of Morrison in order to ensure the \u201cdecolonisation of the curriculum\u201d and to \u201ccontribute to increased diversity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the course will reportedly change as well, with students taking the Special Authors module being told that \u201cthe main topics covered will include racial difference and critical race theory, gender and sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students will also be educated on \u201cblack postmodernism, Gothic, as well as the aesthetics of the contemporary US and African-American novel\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter in Britain in 2020, the principle at Stirling University,\u00a0Prof Gerry McCormac said that the school would commit to supporting an \u201canti-racist agenda in higher education\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018White Saviour\u2019 Isaac Newton Benefited from \u2018Colonial-Era Activity\u2019, Claims University: Report <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RyliwUnhCa\">https:\/\/t.co\/RyliwUnhCa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1386671151275970565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The widespread, and often violent protests in 2020, saw a slew of historical figures in Britain targeted for varied offences to the woke mob, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/09\/23\/delingpole-churchills-home-put-on-blm-style-list-of-colonialism-and-slavery-shame\/\">Sir Winston Churchill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/06\/10\/whore-slag-slave-owner-queen-victoria-statue-vandalised-blm-slogans\/\">Queen Victoria<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n<p>Universities were some of the first institutions to pick up on the movement as an excuse to the leftist agenda of \u201cdecolonising the curriculum,\u201d with figures such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/26\/white-saviour-isaac-newton-benefited-colonial-era-activity-claims-left-wing-university-report\/\">Sir Issac Newton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/05\/10\/charles-darwins-theory-of-evolution-promotes-white-male-supremacy-claims-woke-academics\/\">Charles Darwin<\/a>, and others facing scorn for having held beliefs that do not fall in line with modern sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen, herself was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/20\/museum-targets-jane-austens-tea-drinking-in-blm-style-race-review\/\">targeted<\/a> in the uproar, with a museum dedicated to honouring the author deciding to put up displays criticising her for benefiting from \u201cRegency-era colonialism\u201d. While Austen and her family did not own slaves or directly benefit from colonialism, the museum argued that she benefited from having access to worldly items such as sugar in her tea.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Stirling University did not directly critique Austen, and claimed that it will change out authors on an annual basis. However, when discussing some historical works, students will be given trigger warnings to warn them that they may encounter\u00a0\u201cthe language of colonialism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the material in the module includes discussion of colonialism (including colonial violence towards men and women), enslavement, violence, racism, sexism and issues surrounding representations of gender, class, race, and mental health,\u201d an\u00a0English module trigger warning states.<\/p>\n<p>Criticising the move to drop Austen, British historian Tom Holland <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holland_tom\/status\/1511450028954558470\">said<\/a>: \u201cI love the idea that a British university, by dropping Britain\u2019s most significant female novelist in favour of an American one, is somehow decolonising itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t British humanities departments just admit the truth: that they\u2019re absolutely desperate to become outposts of American university culture?\u201d the best-selling author questioned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now Jane Austen is racist for\u2026drinking tea? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YExEBXZEj4\">https:\/\/t.co\/YExEBXZEj4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1384520742176444423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement, celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course by African American writer Toni Morrison in order to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}