Writing in disguise academic life in subordination /

Writing in Disguise is a series of increasingly personal essays that both discuss and dramatize through firsthand experience the significance of subordination in academic life, in terms of issues and structures but above all in terms of texts. Some are written: memos, rejection letters, even resigna...

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Main Author: Caesar, Terry.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [1998]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 177 pages)
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Summary: Writing in Disguise is a series of increasingly personal essays that both discuss and dramatize through firsthand experience the significance of subordination in academic life, in terms of issues and structures but above all in terms of texts. Some are written: memos, rejection letters, even resignation letters. Some are not: anecdotes, protests, jokes, parodies. All of these texts have in common the imperative of disguise, represented as the most crucial consequence of dominant discourse, within which subordination might speak only by knowing its place, and write only by producing hidden transcripts. Caustic, pointed, satiric, Writing in Disguise is an engaging critique of aspects of academia involving the misuse, misappropriation, and misappreciation of verbal communication in its many guises. This book presents a series of personal essays in which the author analyzes and dramatizes the significance of subordination in academic life. Academic life is examined in terms of issues (such as sexual harassment) and structures (such as the figure of the dissertation director) but especially in terms of texts.
Item Description: Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing and disguise -- Chapter one. Missionaries and knots in sexual harassment -- Chapter two. Personal authority, colonial power, and dissertation directors -- Chapter three. Wheels, cogs, oil cups, and rejection letters -- Chapter four. The green bean campaign in the memo -- Chapter five. High flying at low levels: Hierarchy, composition, and teaching -- Chapter six. Writing resignation: The donkey on the minaret and the President's papers -- Notes -- Index.
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Writing in Disguise is a series of increasingly personal essays that both discuss and dramatize through firsthand experience the significance of subordination in academic life, in terms of issues and structures but above all in terms of texts. Some are written: memos, rejection letters, even resignation letters. Some are not: anecdotes, protests, jokes, parodies. All of these texts have in common the imperative of disguise, represented as the most crucial consequence of dominant discourse, within which subordination might speak only by knowing its place, and write only by producing hidden transcripts. Caustic, pointed, satiric, Writing in Disguise is an engaging critique of aspects of academia involving the misuse, misappropriation, and misappreciation of verbal communication in its many guises. This book presents a series of personal essays in which the author analyzes and dramatizes the significance of subordination in academic life. Academic life is examined in terms of issues (such as sexual harassment) and structures (such as the figure of the dissertation director) but especially in terms of texts.
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English.
Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco.
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 177 pages)
Format: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0585076243
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