July 5, 2002
In Writing and Publishing, Think Inside the Box
Remember when someone first exhorted you to "think outside the box"? It's a brilliant mantra. The box is the world of constraints imposed on us or that we create for ourselves. Boxes are categories, and categories are bad, except when they're good.
In the academic world, categories -- gender, race, postcolonialism -- are always in crisis. What's true for professors and professors-to-be is true for the people in the scholarly-book business, too. We live by categories, or rather the work
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