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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Caesar
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1998
• EAN: 9780821412206
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1220-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system