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Crossing Borderlands Composition and Postcolonial Studies

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ISBN-10: 0822958376

ISBN-13: 9780822958376

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrea Lunsford, Lahoucine Ouzgane

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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 ldquo;othersrdquo; 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 Borderlandsattempts to establish such an exchange in the hopes of creating a productive…    
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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 5/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Andrea A. Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and a member of the faculty of The Bread Loaf Graduate School of English. She has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in writing history and theory, rhetoric, literacy studies, and intellectual property and is the author or co-author of many books and articles, including The Everyday Writer; Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, Everything's an Argument, Exploring Borderlands: Composition and…    

Composition and Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction
Composing Postcolonial Studies
Toward a Mesitz Rhetoric: Gloria Anzaldua on Composition and Postcoloniality
Terms of Engagement: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Composition Studies
Encountering the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Composition Scholarship
Pratt and Pratfalls: Revisioning Contact Zones
Beside Ourselves: Rhetoric and Representation in Postcolonial Feminist Writing
Postcolonial Transformations in Canadian Inuit Testimonio
(Im)migrant Crossings
Resisting Writing: Reflections on the Postcolonial Factor in the Writing Class
Arts of the U.S.-Mexico Contact Zone
Hybridity: A Lens for Understanding Mestizo/a Writers
The Politics of Location: Using Flare-Ups to Spark "Reflexive Dialogue" in the Ever-Changing Classroom Text
The New Literacy/Orality Debates: Ebonics and the Redefinition of Literacy in Multicultural Settings
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index