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'Open the doors and let these books in' - what would a truly diverse reading list look like?
Following student calls for university English literature syllabuses to be ‘decolonised’, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie and other authors reflect on the debate and choose essential books by black and minority ethnic writers
“At this difficult time in the west, when racism is increasing and people are retreating into nationalism, populism and even white supremacy, if literature is to have any point for young people, it must be to examine and dismantle the structures that maintain white power. The literary is also the political. If we open the “canon”, we also open our minds.”