4 Canonicity

Abstract

The return of 'the' canon, the high canon of Western masterpieces, represents the return of an order in which my people were subjugated, the voiceless, the invisible, the unrepresented, and the unrepresentable. Who would return us to that medieval nevernever land?-Henry Louis Gates, Jr Indeed, the minute the word 'judgmental' became pejorative, we should have known we made a misstep. Which isn't for a moment to concede that anybody actually stopped judging. Literary evaluation merely ceased to be a professionally accredited act.-Henry Louis Gates, Jr, later in the same volume 1 Canonicity