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Download full textMarinara, Martha – 1992
Sylvia Plath's confessional poem, "Lady Lazarus" can be used to illustrate a connection between autobiography and social critique. "You poke and stir" among the institutions that form social relations--the educational system, the court system, the economic system--to find individuals whose lives, whose joys and pains, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Higher Education, Marxian Analysis, Personal Narratives
Peer reviewedYelin, Louise – Journal of Basic Writing, 1978
Discusses Marxist theory and scholarship as they illuminate the relationships between basic writing courses, language, literacy, and values, both in the broad institutional context and in the narrower instructional context. (RL)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Educational Environment, Educationally Disadvantaged, Higher Education
