Polyphony

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snow, Jennie, author.

Takehana, Elise, author.

Ubiera, Diego, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Textbooks.

Humanities.

Rhetoric--Textbooks.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA ROTEL 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Polyphony is a functional, creative, and radical resource for facilitating critical conversations about multilingualism, the politics of language, and linguistic justice in the first-year writing classroom. Texts and activities explore diverse perspectives on themes like silencing/voicing, language extinction and reclamation, (in)visibility, translation, agency, and validation, among others. Designed for use by both instructors and students, this book is meant to be used in a variety of combinations and highlights multiple modes of writing, including personal narrative, textual analysis, argumentation, reflection, and research. Embracing a “polyphonic” approach to first-year writing, this book presents connections between texts, authors, and ideas that actively engage students and instructors in critical conversations about language, education, and the institutionalization of both.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

How to Use This Book

Polyphony: A Meditation

List of Hashtags

I. Reader

"As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself,” Michel DeGraff

“Asters and Goldenrod,” Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Connecting the Dots,” Bassey Ikpi

“The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual,” Ada Limón

“Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive,” Phuc Tran

“Gun Bubbles,” Margrét Ann Thors

“How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldúa

“Place Name: Oracabessa,” Kei Miller

“Puerto Rican Obituary,” Pedro Pietri

“Saving a Language You’re Learning to Speak,” NPR Codeswitch

“Skin Feeling,” Sofia Samatar

“Three Ways to Speak English,” Jamila Lyiscott

"To Speak is to Blunder," Yiyun Li

“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” Audre Lorde

“Vão/Vòng A Conversation with Katrina Dodson,” Madhua Kaza

II. Explorations

Against the Grain: Listening for Controversy

Aphoristic Translation

Body as Metaphoric Space

Building an Opinion

Collage: Found, Donated, Repeated with Difference

Critical Learning Reflection

Dialogue Over Time: A New Boogaloo: “How Beautiful We Really Are”

Emotion in Language

Historical Contexts

Indigenous Perspectives of Western Science

Insufficient Definitions

Juxtapositions of Silence

Language Life Story

Music Trails

Parsing Themes

Poetry and Science: Epistemology through Language

The Point of Education?

Reading the “Fine Print”

Self Reflection, Collective Change

Tracing Citations

Transculturation, Language and South-South Migration

Translations Across and Within Languages

Work Culture Reexamined

Contributors

Works Used In This Book

Notes:

Description based on print resource