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Writing on the Move Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy
Author
Title
Writing on the Move [electronic resource] : Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy / Rebecca Lorimer Leonard.
ISBN
0822983044
9780822983040
0822965054
9780822965053
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xiii, 182 pages)).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
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 among their different languages and around the world. Writing on the Move builds a theory of literate valuation, in which socioeconomic values shape how multilingual migrant writers do or do not move forward in their lives. The book details the complicated reality of multilingual literacy, which is lived at the nexus of prejudice, prestige, and power.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 Global Cultural Studies.
Other formats
Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2018
Series
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index.
Contents
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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Project Muse, distributor.
Project Muse.
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