The Literary Canon: What is it? Should it exist?

This is a video essay exploring the Literary canon: What it is? What are its problems? and What we can do about it? What is the literary canon? 00:49 Who decides the canon? 02:46 What is excluded? 07:23 Other Literary Canon 09:10 What should we do? 11:07 Article referenced: http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture... Videos reference: Systemic Racism:    • Systemic Racism Explained   Poverty:    • What is Poverty?   Harvard women in Academics:    • Women at Cambridge: The ladder of academic...   Defining the Humanities:    • Defining the Humanities: Multicultural Lit...   The joy of books:    • The Joy of Books   Books referenced/shown (if you were curious wanted to read them): 1984 by George Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell Beloved by Toni Morrison Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Dawn by Octavia Butler Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn Dracula by Bram Stoker Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin Kindred by Octavia Butler Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Lord of the Flies by William Golding Obasan by Joy Kagawa Of Mice and men by John Steinbeck One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paradise Lost by Milton Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Thanks for reading :)