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To: Lane3 who wrote (3195)	3/17/2002 9:10:05 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

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...

To: Lane3 who wrote (3195)	3/17/2002 9:39:16 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I know this! or at least I think I do close readers- are (if I recall) from the "New Criticism"- they believe in seeing how the words strike one another. A close reading is checking how the words and meanings "hit" each other. The words are important, not what the author "meant" for that is the "heresy of inference." Post colonialists are looking for things that indicate a colonial mentality, or structures in a book that have symbolic (or real) relation to colonialism. Feminist scholars are of course interested in the literature of women, or finding novel ways to evaluate "male" literature to either show the men up as male chauvanist pigs, or raise the female characters in stature. This is a gloss on something that is very complicated- so it is highly over generalized.