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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:18:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Howard Hastings <hhasting-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Whose ox?


On Thu, 28 May 1998, Reg Lilly wrote:

> I recently was solicited to join the Association of Literary Scholars and
> Critics, which obviously has been set up as an anti-MLA.  Not being a member of
> the MLA but having attended some conferences, I was interested in precisely what
> parties (ostensibly) in the MLA that are the target of this venture. 

Practitioners of cultural studies would be one target.  Women's studies,
chicano studies, gay and lesbian studies, and Afro-american studies would
also fit here.

 They say
> "ALSC is dedicated to fostering appreciation of the literary imagination, of the
> value of literary studeis, and of a shared literary culture.  It seeks to uphold
> broad conceptions of literature, rather than the narrow, highly politicized ones
> too often encountered today."  
> 	Anyone have the skinny on these persons?

I think they are a little to the left of the NAS (National  Association of
Scholars).  But still bent on upholding the western white male canon as an 
exemplar of universal humanity.  

More later, got to finish a paper now.


hh
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