Writing in Disguise: Academic Life in Subordination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780821412206)

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.

Author: Terry Caesar
ISBN-10: 0821412205
ISBN-13: 9780821412206
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/1998
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.31w x 0.71d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/26/1998 pg. 80
Library Journal 01/01/1998 pg. 99