Manifesto of a tenured radical / Cary Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Cary.

Series:

Cultural front (Series)

Cultural front

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

United States.

English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English philology.

English philology--Study and teaching (Higher).

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Humanities.

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Canon (Literature).

College teachers--Tenure--United States.

College teachers.

College teachers--Tenure.

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.

Education, Higher--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

vi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [1997]

Contents:

Against English as it was : theory and the politics of the discipline

Multiculturalism without guarantees : from anthologies to the social text

Relativism, politics, and ethics : writing literary history in the shadow of Poststructuralism

Always already cultural studies : academic conferences and a manifesto

Progressive pedagogy without apologies : the cultural work of teaching noncanonical poetry

Canon fodder : an evening with William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, and Dinesh D'Souza

Hate speech and political correctness

What happens when we put the left at the center?

Dichotomy is where the money is : anti-intellectualism within and outside the university

Late capitalism arrives on campus : the corporate university's expendable employees

What is to be done? : a twelve-step program for academia

Reaction and resistance at Yale and the MLA : union organizing and the job market.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-237) and index.

ISBN:

0814757944

0814757979

OCLC:

36165105