Literature, language, and politics
By: edited by Betty Jean Craige.
Contributors: Craige, Betty Jean.; Modern Language Association of America. Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Politics and literature -- United States.; Literature -- Philosophy.; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Includes papers presented at a forum sponsored by the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, in December 1987.
Table of contents: title: The two criticisms / by Paul Lauter; title: On the rhetoric of racism in the profession / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; title: Dancing between left and right / by Annette Kolodny; title: Language politics in the USA / by Ana Celia Zentella; title: The right moves / by Ellen Messer-Davidow; title: Politics and academic research / by Catharine R. Stimpson; title: Teach the conflicts / by Gerald Graff.