The coda, Critical Teaching and Theatricality in Everyday Life, is an especially provocative look at universities and English departments as theaters of knowledge. Recommended for all collections. -- H.A. Booth, SUNY at Buffalo CHOICE Between the Masks presents one feminist's contruction of a pedagogy that can illuminate the politics of race, class, and gender. Signs: Journal of Women In Culture & Society The author takes the seminal and sometimes most difficult arguments of important theorists and applies them to the concepts of performance and essentialism in ways that are inventive and insightful ... The book is theoretically rich without being convoluted; therefore, rich in ways that are relevant and meaningful. -- D. Soyini Madison, associate director of the Institute of African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
