Politics of Voice, The

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"I am very impressed by Schueller's identification and analysis of the generic identity of these disparate texts as well as by her deft handling of the complex issues of the politics within and among them. I think that in itself constitutes a significant contribution to American literary scholarship. The author has done an excellent job of laying out the formal and rhetorical strategies common among these books that she labels as personal-political narratives." - Russell J. Reising, Marquette University

"Schueller describes the struggle among the authorial (monologic) and destabilizing (dialogic) voices in a collection of well-chosen personal-political narratives running through the history of U. S. literature. She develops a useful distinction between consensus (identified with capitalist conformity) and community (identified with the radical urge for diversity and openness as well as the feminist stress on relationship). And she reveals the strategies by which the authorial voice dominates, appropriates, or suppresses the voices of Others; how it asserts itself in transcendental or unifying languages; and how it is challenged, subverted, destabilized, or drawn into dialogue with the voices of Others. As a result she develops very useful insights and makes important distinctions among the authors, most of whom dominated the canon of American literature." - Richard Pearce, Wheaton College