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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
I had some professor of "indigenous culture" tell me once she was going to write a paper about cesar vallejo and indigenism because in the 20s indigenism was "fashionable" and vallejo did had caught on. when i said that this didn't match my knowledge of vallejo's work or biography, nor did i see a correspondence between his work and that of indigenist writers, and asked what poems she was referring to, she couldn't answer and gave me some bullshit distraction about what was going on in the 20s. anyway, it was all balls.
this same person is also a frequent recipient of grants, awards, and fellowships.
disgusting.
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I teach in a department filled with people who have become recognised experts in topics they know absolutely nothing about, cleverly disguising their ignorance through a veil of theoretical double-speak.