Five contemporary plays from Peru spotlighting cultural and linguistic diversity Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani began in 97 as a collective of activist-artists determined to change Peruvian society through the power of theater. Its unique vision aims to represent the multilingual, multiethnic, and multicultural diversity of Peru for a wide range of ......
Five contemporary plays from Peru spotlighting cultural and linguistic diversity Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani began in 97 as a collective of activist-artists determined to change Peruvian society through the power of theater. Its unique vision aims to represent the multilingual, multiethnic, and multicultural diversity of Peru for a wide range of ......
Fourteen essays chart the history of writing-in-the-disciplines programs in the United States and Great Britain and examine the forms they have taken in American higher education.
Writing Theory and Critical Theory discusses the growing body of work linking composition studies and literary studies. Enlisting the strategies of deconstruction, hermeneutics, postmodernism, feminism, neo-Marxism, neopragmatism, psychoanalysis, reader-response criticism, and cultural studies, the twenty-seven contributors investigate the ......
This volume confronts the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today's writing students.
Writing Changes moves beyond restrictive thinking about composition to examine writing as a material and social practice rich with contradictions. It analyzes the assumed dichotomy between writing and multimodal composition (which incorporates sounds, images, and gestures) as well as the truism that all texts are multimodal. Organized in four ......
Using autobiographical sources such as letters, diaries, and oral testimonies, the contributors to this volume suggest possibilities for approaching these materials as literature and introducing them into the classroom. The appendixes include two previously unpublished narratives: the diary of Amelia Buss and the letters of Delina Hopper.
What Is English? is Peter Elbow's challenging and very personal "picture of a profession that cannot define what it is." Written in a lively and accessible style, What Is English? contains Elbow's reflections on the 1987 English Coalition Conference and on its implications for the profession as a whole. Elbow identifies and tackles the major areas ......
Don Catrin de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrin is three things at once: a rakish picaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrin, a dandy or fop; ......
