Dirt and desire : reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990 / / Patricia Yaeger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968733203321
• Autore: Yaeger Patricia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2000
• ISBN: 9786612070297; 9781282070295; 1282070290; 9780226944920; 0226944921
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.99287
• Soggetti: American fiction - Southern States - History and criticism; Women and literature - Southern States - History - 20th century; American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Race in literature; Southern States In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One Southern Women Writers: A Confederacy of Water Moccasins -- Chapter Two. Dynamiting the Rails: Desegregating Southern Literary Studies -- Chapter Three. "And Every Baby ... Was Floating Round in the Water, Drowned": Throwaway Bodies in Southern Fiction -- Chapter Four. Race and the Cloud of Unknowing -- Chapter Five. Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Gargantuas -- Chapter Six. Politics in the Kitchen: Roosevelt, McCullers, and Surrealist History -- Chapter Seven. White Objects, Black Ownership: Object Politics in Southern Fiction -- Chapter Eight. The Body as Testimony -- Chapter Nine. Studying the Waffle house Chain, or Dirt as Desire in Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The story of southern writing-the Dixie Limited, if you will-runs along ; an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger also excavates a southern fascination with dirt-who owns it, who cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it. Yaeger's brilliant, theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty (among many others) explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge a new path for southern studies. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.

Crossing the curriculum : multilingual learners in college classrooms / / edited by Vivian Zamel, Ruth Spack

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961855103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-62028-8; 1-135-62029-6; 1-282-37487-7; 9786612374876; 1-4106-0980-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ZamelVivian; SpackRuth
• Disciplina: 428/.0071
• Soggetti: English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers; Interdisciplinary approach in education; Multicultural education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I: Investigating Students' Experiences Across the Curriculum: Through the Eyes of Classroom Researchers; Chapter 1 Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESOL Students Across the Curriculum; Chapter 2 The Acquisition of Academic Literacy in a Second Language: A Longitudinal Case Study, Updated; Chapter 3 "It became easier over time": A Case Study of the Relationship Between Writing, Learning, and the Creation of Knowledge; Chapter 4 Lessons From Ming: Helping Students Use Writing to Learn; Chapter 5 From Outsider to Insider: Studying Academic Discourse Communities Across the CurriculumII: Learning Across the Curriculum; Chapter 6 Martha's Reflections on Learning Across the Curriculum; Chapter 7 Motoko's Reflections on Learning Across the Curriculum; III: Engaging Students in Learning: Through the Eyes of Faculty Across the Curriculum; Chapter 8 Excelling in the Critical Study of Culture: The Multilingual-Multicultural Student Advantage; Chapter 9 When Writing-to-Learn Is Not Enough; Chapter 10 Writing in Nursing Education and Nursing Practice; Chapter 11 The Soil Under the Gravel: ESOL Learners and Writing About LiteratureChapter 12 "Still Cannot Solve It": Engaging ESOL Students in the Classroom Conversation; Chapter 13 Voicing Names and Naming Voices: Pedagogy and Persistence in an Asian American Studies Classroom; About the Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As college classrooms have become more linguistically diverse, the work of ESOL professionals has expanded to include research on the experiences of multilingual learners not only in ESOL courses but also in courses across the curriculum. At the same time that ESOL professionals are trying to understand the academic challenges that learners face beyond ESOL courses, faculty across the disciplines are trying to meet the challenge of teaching students of differing linguistic backgrounds. Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms responds to these issues and conc