Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within ...the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways, Asian North Americans negotiate daily with 'birthmarks,' their shared physical features marking them legally, socially, and culturally as visible outsiders, and paradoxically, as invisible to mainstream history and culture.
Ty argues that writers such as Denise Chong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and Wayson Choy recast the marks of their bodies and challenge common perceptions of difference based on the sights, smells, dress, and other characteristics of their hyphenated lives. Others, like filmmaker Mina Shum and writers Bienvenido Santos and Hiromi Goto, challenge the means by which Asian North American subjects are represented and constructed in the media and in everyday language. Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies the techniques of various authors and filmmakers in their meeting of the gaze of dominant culture and their response to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies.
This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation. What makes Laura J. ...Beard's work distinctive is her pairing of readings of life narratives by women from different countries and traditions. Her section on metafiction focuses on works by Helena Parente Cunha, of Brazil, and Luisa Futoranksy, of Argentina; the family sagas explored are by Ana María Shua and Nélida Piñon, of Argentina and Brazil, respectively; and the section on testimonio highlights narratives by Lee Maracle and Shirley Sterling, from different Indigenous nations in British Columbia. In these texts Beard terms "genres of resistance," women resist the cultural definitions imposed upon them in an effort to speak and name their own experiences. The author situates her work in the context of not only other feminist studies of women's autobiographies but also the continuing study of inter-American literature that is demanding more comparative and cross-cultural approaches.
Acts of Narrative Resistanceaddresses prominent issues in the fields of autobiography, comparative literature, and women's studies, and in inter-American, Latin American, and Native American studies.
This volume synthesizes and critically analyzes the literature on response to the writing of second language students, and discusses the implications of the research for teaching practice in the ...areas of written and oral teacher commentary on student writing, error correction, and facilitation of peer response.
The book features numerous examples of student texts and teacher commentary, as well as figures and appendices that summarize research findings and present sample lessons and other teaching materials. It is thus simultaneously comprehensive in its approach to the existing research and highly practical in showing current and future teachers how this material applies to their everyday endeavors of responding to student writing and teaching composition classes.
Response to student writing--whether it takes the form of teachers' written feedback on content, error correction, teacher-student conferences, or peer response--is an extremely important component of teaching second language writing. Probably no single activity takes more teacher time and energy. Response to Student Writing is a valuable theoretical and practical resource for those involved in this crucial work, including L2 composition researchers, in-service and preservice teachers of ESOL/EFL writers, and teacher educators preparing graduate students for the teaching of writing.
Contents: Preface. Part I: Research. An Overview of L1 Composition Research on Response and Its Influence on L2 Writing Theory and Practice. Teacher Feedback on L2 Student Writing. Error Correction. Research on Peer Response. Student Views on Response. Part II: Practice. Preparing Teachers to Respond to Student Writing. Suggestions for Error Correction. Implementing Peer Response.
"While Ferris addresses the controversial issues in error feedback in the filed of L2 composition, she does not stop there. By providing practical solutions Ferris makes her book a valuable resource not only for L2 composition researchers and teachers, but also for all teachers facing the challenges of responding to papers of non-native speakers of English." – Issues in Writing, Volume 16, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2006
In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as
waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word.
Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response
...to readers' hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge.
However, traditional literary histories of this period position the
writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the
breadth of popular prose. In the first comprehensive study of the
birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates
the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals
new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing
business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its
publishing genres. Moretti explores how booksellers sparked
interest among readers across the spectrum of literacies and
demonstrates how they tantalized consumers with vital ethical,
religious, societal, and interpersonal knowledge. She recasts books
as tools for knowledge making, arguing that popular prose engaged
its audience cognitively as well as aesthetically and emotionally
to satisfy a burgeoning curiosity about the world. Crucially,
Moretti shows, readers experienced entertainment within the
didactic, finding pleasure in the profit gained from acquiring
knowledge by interacting with transformative literature. Drawing on
a rich variety of archival materials to present a vivid portrait of
seventeenth-century Japanese publishing, Pleasure in
Profit also speaks to broader conversations about the category
of the literary by offering a new view of popular prose that
celebrates plurality.
Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How ...much is a lie?Blurring the Boundariessets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring the limits of the form.
This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today's most renowned teachers and writers-including original work from Michael Martone, Marcia Aldrich, Dinty W. Moore, Lia Purpura, and Robin Hemley, among others. These essays experiment with structure, style, and subject matter, and each is accompanied by the writer's personal reflection on the work itself, illuminating his or her struggles along the way. As these innovative writers stretch the limits of genre, they take us with them, offering readers a front-row seat to an ever-evolving form.
Readers also receive a practical approach to craft thanks to the unique writing exercises provided by the writers themselves. Part groundbreaking nonfiction collection, part writing reference,Blurring the Boundariesserves as the ideal book for literary lovers and practitioners of the craft.
According to S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson's volume of The Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP) on the Bodleian Library's Laudian collection, the text of Decem mandata appears in two other manuscripts in ...addition to MS Laud Misc. 656: According to Hanna, the multiple scribes of Westminster School MS 3 employ an East Midlands dialect, leading him to conclude that they were part of "that well-documented migration from the central East Midlands to London. ...considering that Proverbia Salomonis reflects the same style and rhetorical structure as the other texts, it seems likely to have been intended as part of the original sequence. ...the content of the texts seems relatively orthodox, though there are some subtle inferences that might suggest a certain reformist proclivity.28 It is significant to note, for instance, that there are no references to any of the sacraments, saints, or clerical orders; rather, there is a focus solely on scripture and the common people.
Celotno besedilo
Dostopno za:
DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
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Colonial memory De Mul, Sarah
2011., 20110524, 2012, 2011, 2011-05-24, Letnik:
48419
eBook
Exploring the intersections between memory, gender and the postcolonial, Colonial Memory starts with the observation of a widespread cultural recall of colonial scenes and topics, a compulsion to ...return to the colonies that follows the belatedness of the postcolonial moment. Focusing on Britain and the Netherlands, the author explores the phenomenon of colonial memory through the specific genre of women's travel writing. De Mul criticizes postcolonial studies for its tendency to engage with general and abstract allegories of self and other, which she seeks to substitute with historicized accounts of the cultural frames that shape the contacts between Britain and the Netherlands and their respective (former) colonies, both in the past and the present.
