Scholars must confront their canons, argues Brown (Spanish, U. of Delaware), in order to understand their contents and their pedagogical consequences, and only then take action to ensure that
these consequences are the ones the scholars intend. She takes examples and evidence from her own field, but does not expect readers to read Spanish, and nearly all the titles she mentions are
available in English translation. Her topics include literary canon formation in Western history, modern canons from least to most consensual, the Hispanic literary canon as the contents of an
album and its missing contents, factors that make a work canonical, and a mandate for reform. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland,
OR (booknews.com)
