Hisland : adventures in ac-ac-ademe / Fedwa Malti-Douglas. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa.

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, Author.

Series:

SUNY series, the margins of literature

SUNY series, the margins of literature Hisland

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women educators--Fiction.

Women educators.

Cats--Fiction.

Cats.

Genre:

Satire.

College stories.

Humorous fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 186 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A spoof on academia featuring a woman professor visiting a university which is a bastion of phony intellectualism and male chauvinism. The heroine is called M/M, the university is called Ac-Ac and the tale is told partly in prose, partly in verse.

Contents:

Introduction by Fedwa Malti-Douglas

- Dedication

- In Which M/M Lands on Her Feet

- In Which M/M Arrives at Ac-Ac U.

- In Which M/M Gets Her Bearings

- In Which M/M Wonders: Why Be a Visiting Professor at Ac-Ac U. When She Could Be at Pholly U.?

- In Which M/M Gets a Lecture on Academic Hierarchies

- In Which M/M Has a Second Landing at Ac-Ac: A Home Department

- In Which M/M Describes Her Third Landing of Sorts

- In Which M/M Gets Her First Introduction to DULL

- In Which M/M Attends the Open Faculty Meeting

- In Which M/M Participates in the Induction into the Order of the Cravates

- In Which M/M Feels Over-Received

- In Which M/M Decides Which Course to Audit

- In Which M/M Goes through the Faculty List at DULL in Search of Someone

- In Which M/M Has a Heart to Heart Talk with Herself about Her Future at Ac-Ac U.

- In Which M/M Meets the Dean

- In Which M/M Takes Steps to Set Up the Legendary Meeting with the Women Faculty at Ac-Ac U.

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In Which M/M Attends Her First DULL Faculty Meeting

- In Which M/M Introduces S.P.-T. Directly to the Intellectual Life of DULL

- In Which M/M Finally Meets the Women Faculty of Ac-Ac U.

- In Which M/M Is Treated to Some Great Stories

- In Which M/M Becomes a Member of COOC

- In Which M/M Gets Introduced to the COOC

- In Which M/M Listens to Some Tie History

- In Which M/M Tells the COOCs the Significance of Ties

- In Which M/M Debates with the COOCs

- In Which M/M Debates Again with the COOCs

- In Which M/M Reads the DULL Newsletter

- In Which M/M Has Second Thoughts about Her Visiting Appointment

- In Which M/M Attends the Muted

- Language Society Award Ceremony

- In Which M/M Meets the Women Faculty Once Again

- In Which M/M Has a Nightmarish Experience

- In Which M/M Is Back in the Guest House

- In Which M/M Muses about Her Social Life as a Woman at Ac-Ac U.

- In Which M/M Finally Attends the Promotion Committee Meeting

In Which M/M Attends the Chairs' Meeting

- In Which M/M Makes an Important Decision

- In Which M/M Has Her Dream Come True

- In Which M/M Attends an Oral Examination in LAC

- In Which M/M Learns about Ac-Ac U.'s Provost

- In Which M/M Delivers Her Final Blow

- In Which M/M Presents Her Theory about Ac-Ac

- In Which M/M Announces Her Departure

- In Which M/M Considers Future Possibilities

- In Which M/M Is Not Given an Opportunity to Make a Promise

- In Which M/M Hands the Manuscript to S.P.-T.

- Afterword by Fedwa Malti-Douglas

- (Post)Landing

- The Guide(s)

- The Body

- Scholarship

- Tradition

- The Name

- Hierarchy

- Discourses

- Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-1179-0

0-585-30851-9