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Thomas A. Discenna Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor2019 Routledge London/New York188 pp., £29.59 (paperback), ISBN: 9780367365769 Discourse of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor presents a data-rich, in-depth critical analysis of discursive-rhetorical constructions of academic labor within the contemporary American higher education context. In Chapter 4, Discenna shifts his focus from overt denial to repressed denial by identifying ways academics deny their own labor in the academy. In addition, Discenna cautions that the discourses of denial of academic labor as employed by the university have devastating consequences for the economy of the United States. [Extracted from the article]