"The Modern Language Association is both marketplace and funeral parlor for the professional study of Western literature in North America"

From Adrienne Rich, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision” (1971)

The Modern Language Association is both marketplace and funeral parlor for the professional study of Western literature in North America. Like all gatherings of the professions, it has been and remains a “procession of the sons of educated men” (Virginia Woolf): a congeries of old-boys’ networks, academicians rehearsing their numb canons in sessions dedicated to the literature of white males, junior scholars under the lash of “publish or perish” delivering papers in the bizarrely lit drawing-rooms of immense hotels: a ritual competition veering between cynicism and desperation. 

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