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Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

Young

Minor Re/visions


Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8093-2554-2
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

ISBN: 978-0-8093-2554-2
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press


Through a blend of personal narrative, cultural and literary analysis, and discussions about teaching, Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship shows how people of color use reading and writing to develop and articulate notions of citizenship. Morris Young begins with a narration of his own literacy experiences to illustrate the complicated relationship among literacy, race, and citizenship and to reveal the tensions that exist between competing beliefs and uses of literacy among those who are part of dominant American culture and those who are positioned as minorities. Influenced by the literacy narratives of other writers of color, Young theorizes an Asian American rhetoric by examining the rhetorical construction of American citizenship in works such as Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Mernory, Victor Villanueva's Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color, Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart, and Maxine Hong Kingston's ""Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe"" from Woman Warrior. These narratives, Young shows, tell stories of transformation through education, the acquisition of literacy, and cultural assimilation and resistance. Through a consideration of the literacy narratives of Hawai i, Young also provides a context for reading literacy narratives as responses to racism, linguistic discrimination, and attempts at ""othering"" in a particular region. As we are faced with dominant discourses that construct race and citizenship in problematic ways and as official institutions become even more powerful and prevalent in silencing minor voices, Minor Re/Visions reveals the critical need for revising minority and dominant discourses. Young's observations and conclusions have important implications for the ways rhetoricians and compositionists read, teach, and assign literacy narratives.

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Morris Young is an associate professor of English at Miami University, where he teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, literacy studies, and Asian American literature.



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