Writing on the Move : Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy.

Writing on the Move : Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy.

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 amon...

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Main Author: Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018
Series:Pitt Comp Literacy Culture Ser.
Subjects:
Multilingual communication.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Foreign authors > History and criticism.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Authorship.
Literacy.
Authorship
authorship.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Traveling Literacies; Introduction: Why Writing Matters; Chapter 1. Studying Writing on the Move; Chapter 2. Fluidity: When Writing Moves; Chapter 3. Fixity: When Writing Stalls; Chapter 4. Friction: When Writing Stalls in Motion; Chapter 5. Deep Contradictions in the Value of Literacy; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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