Crossing borderlands: composition and postcolonial studies
by Lunsford, Andrea A. Ouzgane, Lahoucine
On the surface, postcolonial studies and composition studies appear to have little in common. However, they share a strikingly similar goal: to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed. Postcolonial studies accomplishes this goal by opening a space for the voices of "others" in traditional views of history and literature. Composition studies strives to empower students by providing equal access to higher education and validation for their writing. …
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- Full title :Crossing borderlands : composition and postcolonial studies / edited by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane.
Summary
On the surface, postcolonial studies and composition studies appear to have little in common. However, they share a strikingly similar goal: to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed. Postcolonial studies accomplishes this goal by opening a space for the voices of "others" in traditional views of history and literature. Composition studies strives to empower students by providing equal access to higher education and validation for their writing. For two fields that have so much in common, very little dialogue exists between them. Crossing Border.
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- Publication Date:©2004
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- Publisher(s):University of Pittsburgh Press
- Place of Publication:Pittsburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2004
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- Description:1 online resource (297 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822972532, 0822972530
- oclc:ocn878135666
- LC Classification:PE1404.U6
- Dewey Decimal:808/.0428/0711
Table of Contents
Composition and postcolonial studies : an introduction / Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane -- Composing postcolonial studies / Min-Zhan Lu -- Toward a Mestiza rhetoric : Gloria Anzaldua on composition and postcoloniality / Andrea A. Lunsford -- Terms of engagement : postcolonialism, transnationalism, and composition studies / Deepika Bahri -- Encountering the other : postcolonial theory and composition scholarship / Gary Olson -- Pratt and pratfalls : revisioning contact zones / R. Mark Hall and Mary Rosner -- Beside ourselves : rhetoric and representation in postcolonial feminist writing / Susan Jarratt -- Postcolonial transformations in Canadian Inuit testimonio / Martin Behr -- (Im)migrant crossings / Aneil Rallin -- Resisting writing : reflections on the postcolonial factor in the writing class / David Dzaka -- Arts of the U.S. Mexico contact zone / Jaime Armin Mejia -- Hybridity : a lens for understanding Mestizo/a writers / Louise Rodriguez Connal -- The politics of location : "reflexive dialogue" in the ever-changing classroom text / Pamela Gay -- The new literacy/orality debates : ebonics and the redefinition of literacy in multicultural settings / Jan Swearingen.
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