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Title: resistance as illusion
Review: What could have been an interesting book about the UT fiasco turned out to be a book wherein the author strokes her poststructuralist ego. Brodkey contradicts herself at every turn. This book includes silly essays like "Modernism and the Scene(s) of Writing," which reveals that the essence of how the writers write is somehow key to the way we read books. In this essay, Brodkey claims that "very few people [she knows] are positioned as well as [she is] to recognize the extent to which their lives are organized by writing." This is just a small example of the condescending attitude she maintains, while trying to manage to get students to think on their own about how certain unquestioned "truths" come to light. The book has its moments (the student essays, "Writing Critical Ethnographic Narratives"), but there are several moments in which you will want to throw this book across the room.
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