Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory - Tapa blanda

"...a forceful polemic against some of the major intellectual strands within the 'theory' revolution of the last thirty years." -- Literary Research

"This book bespeaks an extraordinarily broad and penetrating understanding of contemporary literary theory in the usual sense, but far more importantly, it presents an extremely clear, lucid, and compelling analysis of its political implications for the classroom, the department, the university as an educational institution, and the body politic of the United States in general. It is not only a courageous investigation and critique of the political positions but also a ringing condemnation of the disingenuous and ultimately shallow and superficial appropriation of the mantle of multiculturalism, trans-culturalism, and similar specialties by monolingual members of academe whose experience outside of the received environment is at best secondhand and all too often condescending and patronizing." -- Steven P. Sondrup, Brigham Young University