I felt much the same way you do when I went to the AWP conference, as though I'd entered a parallel universe. I never knew there were so many politics involved in something I'd always thought to be rather free from controversy. But then again, I took only one English course in college...
I don't know what "post-colonialism" is.
Feminist scholars, I believe, teach works by women and those specific to feminism. This makes me very sad, now twenty-five years after I attended college, to have literature by women treated like a separate field. And feminism, I believe, belongs in the history department. You've read my rants on the Vagina Monologs. Insert that here. So to speak. -g
No clue about 'new-theory advocates" either.
The only thing I do have a handle on is the "multiculturalists" and "the Canon" argument, which in a nutshell, is the argument that what has been traditionally been taught as "Lietrature 101" in American colleges (Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, et al) is not representative of good literature, doesn't include other cultures, women, people of color... |
