Anyone who violates every 'canon' of decency as she has done should be dismissed immediately.
She argues that the 'canon' excludes too many women and minority writers.
the 'canon' of American literature = the American literary 'canon'
(..) sits smiling to my heart Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter O God, O God How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world Fie on't, oh fie! (..)2015 Hamlet