Left Politics and the Literary Profession

Lennard J. Davis is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of several books, including Factual Fictions: The Origins of The English Novel (published by Columbia University Press). M. Bella Mirabella is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin Division of New York University and has written widely on dance and drama.

• Why theory?, by Gerald Graff The function of English at the present time, by Richard Ohmann What am I doing when I do women's studies in 1990?, by Catharine R. Stimpson Literature and politics: black feminist scholars reshaping literary education in the white university, 1970-1986, by Nellie Y. McKay What is the matter with Mary Jane? Feminist criticism in a time of diminished expectations, by Kate Ellis Canon theory and emergent practice, by Paul Lauter Canon fathers and myth universe, by Lillian S. Robinson Literature of resistance: the intersection of feminism and the communist left in Meridel Le Sueur and Tillie Olsen, by Constance Coiner Memory and historical record: the literature and literary criticism of Beirut, 1982, by Barbara Harlow. At the crossroads of history, on the borders of change: Chicano literary studies past, present, and future, by Hector Calderon Third plane at the change of the century: the shape of African-American literature to come, by Pancho Savery History as explanation: writing about lesbian writing, or "Are girls necessary?", by Julie Abraham Politics and literature: then and now, by Robert C. Rosen Somewhere off the coast of academia, by Robert Rich Some historical refractions, by Lillian S. Robinson What has happened to the seeds of the flower children?, by Susan Gushee O'Malley Annals of academic life: an exemplary tale, by Louis Kampf