Writing in disguise : academic life in subordination / Terry Caesar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caesar, Terry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching--Psychological aspects.

College teaching.

College teachers--Psychology.

College teachers.

Academic writing--Psychological aspects.

Academic writing.

Physical Description:

vii, 177 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [1998]

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0821412205

OCLC:

37418277