Professing in the contact zone : bringing theory and practice together / edited by Janice M. Wolff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolff, Janice M., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Physical Description:

xx, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [2002]

Contents:

Arts of the Contact Zone / Mary Louise Pratt 1

I Spaces

1 First Contact: Composition Students' Close Encounters with College Culture / Paul Jude Beauvais 21

2 Multiculturalism, Contact Zones, and the Organization of English Studies / Patricia Bizzell 48

3 Contact Zones: Composition's Content in the University / Katherine K. Gottschalk 58

4 Frontiers of the Contact Zone / Thomas Philion 79

5 Safe Houses and Sacrifices: Filling the Rooms with Precious Riches / Daphne Key 102

II Clashes and Conflicts

6 Fault Lines in the Contact Zone / Richard E. Miller 121

7 Reconstitution and Race in the Contact Zone / Robert D. Murray 147

8 "Can't We All Just Get Along?" When a College Community Resists the Contact Zone / Diane Penrod 166

9 Contact, Colonization, and Classrooms: Language Issues via Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Villanueva's Bootstraps / Mary R. Harmon 197

III Community

10 Teaching in the Contact Zone: Multiple Literacies/Deep Portfolio / Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson 215

11 Writing Centers as Linguistic Contact Zones and Borderlands / Carol Severino 230

12 Teaching in the Contact Zone: The Myth of Safe Houses / Janice M. Wolff 240

13 Contact Zones in Institutional Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Academic Programs / Carole Yee 257

14 Telling Stories: Rethinking the Personal Narrative in the Contact Zone of a Multicultural Classroom / Jeanne Weiland Herrick 274

Afterword: On the Teacher's Zone of Effectivity / Richard E. Miller 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814137407

OCLC:

48223115