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Daphne Patai is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Incluye los nombres: Patai Daphne, Professor Daphne Patai

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OK, OK so this can't really be a 'review' as such, yet -- because this volume is still in the mails, on its way to me, as of this writing. But I am excited to read this, since I spent a good part of the 1980s swaddled in "that incomprehensible French stuff" as I worked toward a Ph.D. in Dramatic Art. All sorts of thoughts occur to me: the *utility* of obfuscation (the illusion of profundity) ... the often-missed 'playfulness' of someone like Derrida (I insist it's there, even what crumbs of it remain in translation are evidence of this ... I think he was aware all along that he was performing, and having a laugh at the expense of many).

My attitude towards some of this material has surely changed since I was in a situation where dealing with it was de rigeur, and it is interesting (to me, anyway) to compare the situation re: certain types of 'theory' having a stranglehold on literature departments that is ... perhaps? ... functionally equivalent to the stranglehold string theory has had in many physics departments (especially since one of the more infamous blemishes on the shining surface of the Theory Machine was its adherents' frequent, complete misunderstandings of scientific concepts, which misunderstandings did not, of course, prevent them from writing about said concepts).
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tungsten_peerts | otra reseña | Mar 8, 2023 |
There seem to be two kinds of literary criticism, the kind found in Western university departments that is concerned with "deconstructing" literary texts through a race/ gender/ post-imperialist/ queer lens, and the other kind on book review websites such as Amazon, dealing with popular titles like, "The Hunger Games", "Twilight", Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" or "Pride and Prejudice".

The first kind specially selects books that lend themselves to race/ gender/ post-imperialist/ queer analysis and the second kind selects books that deal with love, morality, good and evil, heroism, cowardice, duty and mostly male/ female relationships.

There is no doubt about which type of reading the public prefers, but as this excellent book makes clear Western university literature departments are really engaged in a cult like political project rather than anything resembling genuine literary criticism.

The various authors show the totalitarian nature of the race/ gender/ post-imperialist/ queer (RGIQ) project which functions in a similar way to other totalitarian projects such as Islamic Fundamentalism or Marxism in taking for granted their monopoly on the truth and ruthlessly suppressing dissent.

The reader can also see the roots of the RGIQ project in the Frankfurt School with its explicit aim of destroying the foundations of Western society. Probably most of the reviewers of Amazon's top 25 books are not aware ot the Frankfurt School but leftist university academics will be quite familiar with Adorno, Marcuse and their other heroes from the 1960's.

A necessary and worthwhile book explaining what is really going on within the RGIQ Political Correctness movement, and yes, literary criticism is just another agitprop tool to further their aims.
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Miro | otra reseña | Jul 22, 2012 |
Apowerful critique of big sister purity feminism
with an emphasis on the sexual harassment industry. She credits me with inspiring her to
write this book. Thank you, Daphne.
 
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bdank | Jul 28, 2006 |

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