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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Yes, I get it. My point is that it’s so soft as to be relatively meaningless. How about “hate literature”? :) After all, our society calls them “hate groups,” not “polemical groups.” Good literary warrant.<BR>
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On 6/19/09 7:39 AM, "Deborah Leslie" <<a href="djleslie@folger.edu">djleslie@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D">One of the things that came up in conversation was that we knew it when we saw it, but couldn’t find a non-derogatory name for it. “Polemical” isn’t necessarily derogatory, while “Prejudice” is. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dooley,Jackie<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> Re: [DCRM-L] literature of prejudice vs. polemical<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Strikes me as equally subjective—not to mention vague, since it could include stuff with a much softer point of view than e.g. a John Birch or KKK pub that is patently prejudicial to a particular group. -Jackie<BR>
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On 6/19/09 7:16 AM, "Deborah Leslie" <<a href="djleslie@folger.edu">djleslie@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
I just had an epiphany. Some of you remember discussions held a few years ago about the problem with the genre term “Literature of prejudice,” which violates the cataloger’s ethic of labelling (works, people) in a way they would not name themselves. But it is useful to have a term in the hierarchy to collocate this kind of literature.<BR>
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How about “Polemical literature”?<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="1"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:9pt'>Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.<BR>
Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library<BR>
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<a href="djleslie@folger.edu">djleslie@folger.edu</a> www.folger.edu<BR>
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