Coiner (fwd)

[Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:31:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christopher Phelps <crps@xxxxxx>
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Subject: Coiner


   In Memoriam: Constance Coiner

   Constance Coiner, a forty-eight-year-old Associate Professor of
   English at S.U.N.Y. Binghampton, and her twelve-year-old daughter,
   Ana, were among the passengers killed on the TWA flight that exploded.
   They were mentioned in a report on NPR, in a New York Times article
   titled "A Scholar's Reward," and in other papers.

   Constance had been a member of Workers Power in Los Angeles (one of
   the groups that fused to create Solidarity in the mid-1980s) and had
   contributed a review of Labor and Desire by Paula Rabinowitz to
   Against the Current. The recent issue of ATC carries a review of
   Constance's own book, Better Red, a study of left-wing fiction writers
   Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur, by a former student of hers, Renny
   Christopher, who is now herself a professor.

   Constance was a well-known activist in socialist-feminist and
   multi-cultural literary/academic circles in the late 1980s and early
   1990s. She was deeply involved with the journal Radical Teacher, and
   its sponsoring organization, the Radical Caucus of MLA. She frequently
   chaired the caucus-sponsored sessions at national conventions of MLA.
   Among her most recent concerns was the preparation of a book about
   parenting in the academy, and preparation of an introduction to the
   reprint of Alexander Saxton's The Great Midland in the "Radical Novel
   Reconsidered" series of U. of Illinois Press. (Saxton, a former
   Communist, became a UCLA Historian, and author of Rise and Fall of the
   White Republic, and was one of Constance's teachers.) She was a
   popular teacher, especially because of her concern with students from
   working class backgrounds. Against the Current plans to run a tribute
   to her in a future issue.

   --Alan Wald, July 22, 1996



   Please read the review of her book, Better Red, in the latest issue of
   Against the Current.

   [Lifted from the Solidarity world wide web page.]



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