This Telegraph article responds to the furore surrounding the decision of various GCSE boards – apparently at the behest of Michael Gove’s Education Department – to drop American literature from their syllabi. It argues that it is unwise to geographically limit syllabi at GCSE age – but that those who oppose the changes need to be clear about the grounds on which they are doing so.
The following article is the pre-edited version of a chapter in Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration edited by Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson (London: Bloomsbury, 2024). It is reproduced here with the permission of the editors. Abstract This chapter...
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