Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation

In Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation, authors argue that teaching is a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of im-personation. After David Crane's prefatory postscript, George Otte recommends that students pretend, writing from various perspectives; Indira Karamcheti suggests putting on race as one can put on gender roles. Cheryl Johnson gets personal by playing the trickster, and Chris Amirault explores the relationship between the teacher and the good student. While Karamcheti, Gallop, and Lynne Joyrich use theatrical vehicles to structure their essays, Joseph Litvak, Arthur W. Frank, and Naomi Scheman incorporate performance as examples. Madeleine R. Grumet theorizes pedagogy, while Roger I. Simon suggests that pedagogical roles can be taken on and off at will; Gregory Jay discusses the ethical side of impersonation; and Susan Miller denounces the personal as a sham.

Author: Jane Gallop
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/22/1995
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.03w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780253209368

About the Author

JANE GALLOP, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is author of The Daughter's Seduction, Reading Lacan, Thinking through the Body, and Around 1981.