I recently came across this:

(Dis)empowering the Child: A Critique of Children's Literature

It's a post-colonial critique — a sweeping condemnation — of children's literature. It also offers itself to the hapless undergraduate as a "sample essay." I had two reactions: 1) "I always knew this kind of criticism was entirely mechanical, and now I have proof: you could take this sample essay and change the names — the author seems to expect you to do this — and no one would blink an eye" and 2) "I'm surprised a postmodernist critic takes enough interest in his students to produce a webpage" though, to be sure, the page does nothing to foster independent thinking.

The best/worst line was "Thus we must not condemn all writing by adults."

Thank goodness for that!

I wonder what a post-colonial critic would make of Homer's treatment of the "Other" in the Iliad. Maybe he would be big enough to recognize Homer's generosity, or maybe he would rage against lines such as "Thus would murmur any man, Achaian or Trojan: / 'Father Zeus...'" as an attack on the Trojans' irreducible otherness.