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标题：Pedagogy of Alienation: Epistemic Hegemony of the Mental Space and Fatal Fault Lines in the National Space
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作者：Shahzeb Khan
期刊名称：South Asian Studies : A Research Journal of South Asian Studies
印刷版ISSN：1026-678X
出版年度：2016
卷号：31
期号：1
页码：321-330
出版社：University of the Punjab, Lahore
摘要：This paper delves into pedagogic practices that privilege the remote over the proximate, theunfamiliar over the familiar, and the far-off over the intimate. It delineates how this pedagogy ofalienation entails embedding of ‘the west’ in cognitive spaces of the subjects and conditions waysin which they negotiate their familiar terrain: the national space. Spatial dynamics of thehumanistic functions attached with the teaching of E. literature: “the shaping of character, thedevelopment of aesthetics and the disciplines of ethical thinking” will also be identified. Thepaper investigates how English literary texts in an institutionalized space win assent for theirjudgments in a “clandestine” manner. An attempt has been made to equate these acts of assent, onpart of the subjects, as steps of spatial alienation ensuring successive approximation to a desiredbehavior or a reconfiguration of the cognitive space, ultimately “transforming the way in whichobjects of knowledge are constructed.” The resulting epistemes have then been mapped onto thefatal fault lines of the proximal, national space to test their political efficacy.
关键词：Institutionalization of English literature; epistemic hegemony; English;literary education in Pakistan; politics of education.