[DCRM-L] literature of prejudice vs. polemical

[Dooley,Jackie]

Yes, I get it. My point is that it¹s so soft as to be relatively
meaningless. How about ³hate literature²? :) After all, our society calls
them ³hate groups,² not ³polemical groups.² Good literary warrant.

On 6/19/09 7:39 AM, "Deborah Leslie" <djleslie at folger.edu> wrote:

> One of the things that came up in conversation was that we knew it when we saw
> it, but couldn¹t find a non-derogatory name for it. ³Polemical² isn¹t
> necessarily derogatory, while ³Prejudice² is.
> 
> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf
> Of Dooley,Jackie
> Sent: Friday, 19 June, 2009 10:29
> To: DCRM Revision Group List
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] literature of prejudice vs. polemical
>  
> 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
> 
> On 6/19/09 7:16 AM, "Deborah Leslie" <djleslie at folger.edu> wrote:
> I just had an epiphany. Some of you remember discussions held a few years ago
> about the problem with the genre term ³Literature of prejudice,² which
> violates the cataloger¹s 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.
>  
> How about ³Polemical literature²?
>  
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