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Placing the academy : essays on landscape, work, and identity /
A set of creative writers here responds to the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are-where, for each of them, being somehow part of the academy. Their personal essays delineate the diverse, sometimes unexpected roles of place in shaping them, as writers and teac...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Writing place / Jennifer Sinor
- Six kinds of rain: searching for a place in the academy / Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore
- The work the landscape calls us to / Michael Sowder
- Valley language / Diana Garcia
- What I learned from the campus plumber / Charles Bergman
- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter / Katherine Fischer
- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college / Seán W. Henne
- Levittown breeds anarchists! film at 11 / Kathryn T. Flannery
- Living in a transformed desert / Mitsuye Yamada
- A more fortunate destiny / Jayne Brim Box
- Imagined Vietnams / Charles Waugh
- Teaching on stolen ground / Deborah A. Miranda
- The blind teaching the blind: the academic as naturalist, or not / Robert Michael Pyle
- Where are you from? / Lee Torda
- Going away to think / Scott Slovic
- Fronteriza consciousness: the site and language of the academy and of life / Norma Elia Cantú
- Bones of summer / Mary Clearman Blew
- Singing, speaking, and seeing a world / Janice M. Gould
- Making places work: felt sense, identity, and teaching / Jeffrey M. Buchanan
- Running in place: the personal at work, in motion, on campus, and in the neighborhood / Rona Kaufman.