Writing on the move : migrant women and the value of literacy / Rebecca Lorimer Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca, author.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Authorship.

Literacy--Social aspects--United States.

Literacy--Social aspects.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature--Foreign authors.

American literature.

United States.

American literature--Foreign authors--History and criticism.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Multilingual communication.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 182 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

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 multi lingual 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Studying Writing on the Move 18

Chapter 2 Fluidity: When Writing Moves 32

Chapter 3 Fixity: When Writing Stalls 66

Chapter 4 Friction: When Writing Stalls in Motion 92

Chapter 5 Deep Contradictions in the Value of Literacy 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index.

ISBN:

0822965054

9780822965053

OCLC:

989033434