A groundbreaking examination of the complex interaction between the center and the periphery in academic discourse. . . . Will stand as a landmark for decades to come. ― Lester Faigley, University of Texas
Canagarajah deepens and sharpens our understanding of the luxury of ordinary research, writing, and publishing practices even as he guides us through a thicket of extraordinary postcolonial barriers to the democratization of academic scholarship and publication. ―
Linda Brodkey, University of California, San Diego
Even those who like me are wary of the center-periphery distinction will find this a challenging work. It is jargon free and clearly written and the author is refreshingly straightforward in his criticism of accepted wisdom. ―
Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University
This is a disturbing book in the best sense of the word. Canagarajah redraws the map for understanding academic writing. And he makes you rethink what it means to claim membership in a community of scholars. ―
Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A welcome intervention in such fields as English studies, rhetoric, liguistics, postcolonial theory, and of western knowledge construction in general, and the publishing practices of academia in particular. ―
Rocky Mountain Review,
From the Back Cover
“This is a bold and intellectually honest attempt to deal with the ethnography of writing focusing on the post-Foucauldian problem of power-knowledge as it applies to the unequal relationship between centers of academic power located in the United States and Europe and various peripheries located mostly in the third world.”-Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University
“Canagarajah deepens and sharpens our understanding of the luxury of ordinary research, writing, and publishing practices even as he guides us through a thicket of extraordinary postcolonial barriers to the democratization of academic scholarship and publication.”-Linda Brodkey, University of California, San Diego
“Will stand as a landmark for decades to come.”-Lester Faigley, University of Texas
A Geopolitics of Academic Writing critiques current scholarly publishing practices and principles, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized. A. Suresh Canagarajah-a periphery scholar now working in (and writing from) the center-examines the broad Western conventions governing academic writing and argues that their dominance leads to the marginalization or appropriation of the knowledge of Third World communities.
About the Author
A. Suresh Canagarajah taught English in the war-torn region of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, for ten years before joining the faculty of the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1994. He is the author of Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching.
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