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Joseph Conrad And The Ghost Of Oscar Wilde, Richard Ruppel
Joseph Conrad And The Ghost Of Oscar Wilde, Richard Ruppel
English Faculty Articles and Research
"Conrad walks a similar tight- rope in his exploration of the homosocial continuum--pushing out the boundaries a little and then pulling back to accommodate a conventional audience that would have been hostile to a more overt exploration. In other words, Conrad could only press his artistic investigations of the potential relationships between men so far because those investigations were threatened by the ghost of Oscar Wilde."
Antihomophobic Pedagogy: Some Suggestions For Teachers, Ian Barnard
Antihomophobic Pedagogy: Some Suggestions For Teachers, Ian Barnard
English Faculty Articles and Research
Too often as teachers we feel that we are doing the right thing by assigning our students "open-ended" essay topics or by inviting students to argue "both" sides of a controversial current event. The ideologies and institutions of liberal pluralism tell us that this is the way to promote "free speech," "democratic" argument, etc. But these kinds of topics and discussions have the effect of privileging dominant power relations and of further silencing our queer students. For example, if we ask our students to debate whether homosexuality is "wrong" or not, we are expecting our queer students to justify their …