Questioned about the "politically correct" overtone to his paper on wrestling, Yonatan Touval said, "The fact that wrestling is a $1.5 billion industry suggests the subject is not trivial and ridiculous."
An Inclusive Litany
6/8/92
Some highlights from the papers delivered by graduate students at the
annual English department symposium at
Rutgers University:
"Roland Barthes and the World of the Wrestling Anus"; "Kissing a
Negress in the Dark: Lesbian Subjectivity and Colonial Discourse in
Woolf's Orlando"; "Of Muscles and Men: The Laboring Body as
Self-(Re)Presentation in The Blithedale Romance."