| Writing in Disguise: Academic Life in Subordination Contributor(s): Caesar, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821412205 ISBN-13: 9780821412206 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Education | Higher - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 378.120 |
| LCCN: 97-30432 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.31" W x 9.35" (1.08 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |