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 feminist cultural
studies and its connections to literary interpretation. The book is
organized around a number of academic scenes in which Miller
analyses the stakes of feminist critical performance. The focus on
occasions, from the conference to the seminar to the professional
colloquium, produces an autobiographical perspective on the
mini-drama of institutional politics - whether faculty struggles
over the canon in elite universities, or student strivings for
self-authorization in large urban ones. Writing "as a" feminist
critic, Miller describes the dilemmas of a responsible pedogogic
practice: the contradictory demands of authority and complicity for
a feminist teacher of literature.
"Getting" "Personal" examines the rhetorical strategies of a
feminism traversed by internal debates over its own
self-representations. Working through and among quotations of
voices that might otherwise not address each other, Miller assesses
a crisis and offers a project for moving on.
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