Curriculum reform, changing the canon, multiculturalism, feminism, multiculturalism-n-feminism, the culture wars, political correctness are the issues with which this book is concerned to have multiple labels, bestowed on different sides of a debate that began in the academy but that has become a matter of civic interest. It is a debate that involves definitions of culture: what it is or is not, who makes it, what it is for, how it is taught, and who gets to decide. Always political in one sense, the issues that fall under this heading have acquired new political dimensions as they have moved from the campus into the arena of public policy, where they embrace not only higher education, but media, censorship, and public attitudes toward everything from religion to sexuality. Most of the well known books on these issues including bestsellers by Alan Bloom and Dinesh dSouza come from the far right. They claim that people like Lillian Robinson, active in feminist and cultural studies for a quarter of a century, have taken over our universities. Robinson counters that the right is so frightened at losing its strangle-hold on the culture that it misrepresents a foothold as hegemony. She also thinks that foothold multicultural, feminist, socially aware is a necessary and life-giving direction for higher education. "In the Canons Mouth" brings together the articles, reviews, and lectures on the culture wars that Lillian Robinson produced between 1982 and 1996. Originally published in academic journals and magazines of opinion on the left and the right, delivered as lectures at American campuses from Maine to Hawaii and Texas to Indiana, or presented abroad in Japan, Mexico, and Thailand, these pieces are salvos in the culture wars. Topics addressed include such issues as separating the politics and the aesthetics of feminist challenges to the canon, how to make a honest anthology and how not to, and inquiring how government censors get away with calling university reformers the real censors. The essays are uniformly concerned, forthright, radical, literate, and witty.
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Lillian S. Robinson, Professor of English at East Carolina University, has held teaching and research posts at MIT, SUNY/Buffalo, the Sorbonne, Stanford, Wellesley, Tulsa, Albright, Scripps, San Diego State, Hawaii, Texas, and Virginia Tech. She is the author of Sex, Class, and Culture and Monstrous Regiment, as well as a co-author of Feminist Scholarship.
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As with many other restrictive instructions, we are hardly aware of it until we come into conflict with it; the elements of the literary canon are simply absorbed by the apprentice scholar and critic in the normal course of graduate education, without anyone's ever seeming to inculcate or defend them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, The Heath Anthology, Tillie Olsen, Tulsa Studies, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Native American, Paul Lauter, Indiana University Press, Edith Wharton, French Revolution, Jane Marcus, Waving the Flag, Gloria Anzaldúa, Lynne Cheney, Mill Hunk, Old Mistresses, Zora Neale Hurston, Daddy's Roommate, Groves of Academe, Journal of Women, The Norton Anthology of Literature, Toni Morrison, United States, University of Illinois Press New!
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As with many other restrictive instructions, we are hardly aware of it until we come into conflict with it; the elements of the literary canon are simply absorbed by the apprentice scholar and critic in the normal course of graduate education, without anyone's ever seeming to inculcate or defend them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marked variant, female tradition, food coop, literary curriculum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Heath Anthology, Tillie Olsen, Tulsa Studies, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Native American, Paul Lauter, Indiana University Press, Edith Wharton, French Revolution, Jane Marcus, Waving the Flag, Gloria Anzaldúa, Lynne Cheney, Mill Hunk, Old Mistresses, Zora Neale Hurston, Daddy's Roommate, Groves of Academe, Journal of Women, The Norton Anthology of Literature, Toni Morrison, United States, University of Illinois Press New!
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- Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings by Janet Zandy on page 165, page 166, and page 169
- The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1 by Paul Lauter on page 112, page 113, and page 118
- The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume II by Paul Lauter on page 112, page 113, and page 118
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker on page 91, page 93, and page 109
- Everyday Use (Women Writers) by Alice Walker on page 37, and page 58
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