1st Edition
Getting Personal Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts
By Nancy K. Miller
Copyright 1992
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the era of identity politics, whose is the I of cultural criticism? And what does the invention of an autobiographical persona have to do with contemporary theory? In Getting Personal , Nancy K. Miller reflects upon the ways in which contingencies of identity and location shape the writing of academic argument and the living of an academic life. Getting Personal explores the new territory of... Read more
Chapter 1 Getting Personal: Autobiography as Cultural Criticism; Chapter 2 Untitled Work, Or, Speaking as a Feminist …; Chapter 3 A Feminist Teacher in the Graduate Classroom; Chapter 4 The French Mistake; Chapter 5 Parables and Politics: Feminist Criticism in 1986; Chapter 6 Dreaming, Dancing, awd Changing Locations of Feminist Criticism, 1988; Chapter 7 Philoctetes' Sister: Feminist Literary Criticism and the New Misogyny; Chapter 8 Teaching Autobiography; Chapter 9 My Father's Penis;
Biography
Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Lehman College. She is the author of Changing the Subject (1988), The Heroine's Text (1982), and editor of The Poetics of Gender (1986), as well as the author of numerous critical essays on gender and sexuality, feminist theory, and on French literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.
"...an engaging reply to the anti-feminist backlash in the academy and the ongoing war over the place of critical theory." -- Publisher's Weekly
