Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. Cary Nelson

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       MANIFESTO OF A TENURED RADICAL

       CULTURAL FRONT

      GENERAL EDITOR: MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ

       MANIFESTO OF A TENURED RADICAL

      CARY NELSON

       MANIFESTO OF A TENURED RADICAL

       CARY NELSON

      NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

      New York and London

      Copyright © 1997 by New York University

      All rights reserved

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Nelson, Cary.

      Manifesto of a tenured radical / Cary Nelson.

      p. cm. — (Cultural front)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-8147-5794-4 (clothbound : alk. paper).—ISBN

      0-8147-5797-9 (paperbound : alk. paper)

      1. Education, Higher —Aims and objectives—United States.

      2. English philology—Study and teaching (Higher)—United States.

      3. Humanities—Study and teaching (Higher)—United States.

      4. Critical pedagogy—United States. 5. Canon (Literature)

      6. College teachers—Tenure—United States. 7. Education, Higher

      —Political aspects—United States. I. Title. II. Series.

      LA227.4.N45 1997

      378.73—dc21 96-51305

       CIP

      New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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       CONTENTS

       INTRODUCTION

       I THE POLITICS OF ENGLISH

       1. AGAINST ENGLISH AS IT WAS

       THEORY AND THE POLITICS OF THE DISCIPLINE

       2. MULTICULTURALISM WITHOUT GUARANTEES

       FROM ANTHOLOGIES TO THE SOCIAL TEXT

       3. RELATIVISM, POLITICS, AND ETHICS

       WRITING LITERARY HISTORY IN THE SHADOW OF POSTSTRUCTURALISM

       4. ALWAYS ALREADY CULTURAL STUDIES

       ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND A MANIFESTO

       II THE ACADEMY AND THE CULTURE DEBATES

       5. PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY WITHOUT APOLOGIES

       THE CULTURAL WORK OF TEACHING NONCANONICAL POETRY

       6. CANON FODDER

       AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM BENNETT, LYNNE CHENEY, AND DINESH D’SOUZA

       7. HATE SPEECH AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

       8. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE PUT THE LEFT AT THE CENTER?

       III LESSONS FROM THE JOB WARS

       9. DICHOTOMY IS WHERE THE MONEY IS

       ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

       10. LATE CAPITALISM ARRIVES ON CAMPUS

       THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY’S EXPENDABLE EMPLOYEES

       11. WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

       A TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIA

       12. REACTION AND RESISTANCE AT YALE AND THE MLA

       UNION ORGANIZING AND THE JOB MARKET

       NOTES

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       MANIFESTO OF A TENURED RADICAL

INTRODUCTION

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