Writing on the Move : Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy /

In this book, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard shows how multilingual migrant women both succeed and struggle in their writing contexts. Based on a qualitative study of everyday multilingual writers in the United States, she shows how migrants' literacies are revalued because they move with writers amon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Multilingual communication.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Foreign authors > History and criticism.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Authorship.
Literacy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : traveling literacies
  • Introduction : why writing matters
  • 1. Studying writing on the move
  • 2. Fluidity : when writing moves
  • 3. Fixity : when writing stalls
  • 4. Friction : when writing stalls in motion
  • 5. Deep contradictions in the value of literacy.

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