Manifesto of a tenured radical
By: Cary Nelson.
Series: Cultural front; Cultural front (Series)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States; English philology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Critical pedagogy -- United States; Canon (Literature); College teachers -- Tenure -- United States; Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Against English as it was : theory and the politics of the discipline; title: Multiculturalism without guarantees : from anthologies to the social text; title: Relativism, politics, and ethics : writing literary history in the shadow of Poststructuralism; title: Always already cultural studies : academic conferences and a manifesto; title: Progressive pedagogy without apologies : the cultural work of teaching noncanonical poetry; title: Canon fodder : an evening with William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, and Dinesh D'Souza; title: Hate speech and political correctness; title: What happens when we put the left at the center?; title: Dichotomy is where the money is : anti-intellectualism within and outside the university; title: Late capitalism arrives on campus : the corporate university's expendable employees; title: What is to be done? : a twelve-step program for academia; title: Reaction and resistance at Yale and the MLA : union organizing and the job market.