Writing Across Cultures

Author : Kenneth Wagner,Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820419230

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This book is about culture shock and the writing process. For a student, the relationship between writing and the challenge of living in a foreign culture may not be obvious. The purpose of Writing Across Culture is to aid the student in documenting and analyzing the connection. If culture can be broadly defined as the unwritten rules of every-day life, one effective method for learning these rules is to write about them as they are discovered. In this way, it is possible to see writing as a tool for cultural inquiry and comprehension, and, hence, an antidote for culture shock. Writing Across Culture encourages its readers to become writers engaged in a dialogue - between the individual and the new society - about everyday cultural differences.

Author : Robert Eddy,Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607328742

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Writing Across Cultures invites both new and experienced teachers to examine the ways in which their training has—or has not—prepared them for dealing with issues of race, power, and authority in their writing classrooms. The text is packed with more than twenty activities that enable students to examine issues such as white privilege, common dialects, and the normalization of racism in a society where democracy is increasingly under attack. This book provides an innovative framework that helps teachers create safe spaces for students to write and critically engage in hard discussions. Robert Eddy and Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar offer a new framework for teaching that acknowledges the changing demographics of US college classrooms as the field of writing studies moves toward real equity and expanding diversity. Writing Across Cultures utilizes a streamlined cross-racial and interculturally tested method of introducing students to academic writing via sequenced assignments that are not confined by traditional and static approaches. They focus on helping students become engaged members of a new culture—namely, the rapidly changing collegiate discourse community. The book is based on a multi-racial rhetoric that assumes that writing is inherently a social activity. Students benefit most from seeing composing as an act of engaged communication, and this text uses student samples, not professionally authored ones, to demonstrate this framework in action. Writing Across Cultures will be a significant contribution to the field, aiding teachers, students, and administrators in navigating the real challenges and wonderful opportunities of multi-racial learning spaces.

Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351586269

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Women Writing Across Cultures by Pelagia Goulimari Pdf

This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Author : Angel Rama
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352938

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Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.

Author : Omar Sougou
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9042012986

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This is a timely and comprehensive study combining various critical approaches to the fiction of Buchi Emecheta, one of Africa's most illustrious and contentious women writers. Feminist (Showalter, Cixous, Kristeva) and postcolonial approaches (writing back) are taken to Emecheta's texts to illuminate the personal, political and aesthetic ramifications of the production of this "born writer." Poststructural programmes of analysis are shown to be less relevant to this writer's fiction than Marxist and Bakhtinian perspectives. Emecheta is shown to be a bridge-builder between two cultures and two worlds in narratives (both challenging and popular) characterized by ambiguity, ambivalence and double-voiced discourse, all of which evince the writer's determination to expose imaginatively the colonial heritage of centre-periphery conflicts, cultural corruption, ethnic discrimination, gender oppression, and the migrant experience in multiracial communities.

Author : Omar Sougou
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9042013087

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Writing Across Cultures by Omar Sougou Pdf

This is a timely and comprehensive study combining various critical approaches to the fiction of Buchi Emecheta, one of Africa's most illustrious and contentious women writers. Feminist (Showalter, Cixous, Kristeva) and postcolonial approaches (writing back) are taken to Emecheta's texts to illuminate the personal, political and aesthetic ramifications of the production of this "born writer." Poststructural programmes of analysis are shown to be less relevant to this writer's fiction than Marxist and Bakhtinian perspectives. Emecheta is shown to be a bridge-builder between two cultures and two worlds in narratives (both challenging and popular) characterized by ambiguity, ambivalence and double-voiced discourse, all of which evince the writer's determination to expose imaginatively the colonial heritage of centre-periphery conflicts, cultural corruption, ethnic discrimination, gender oppression, and the migrant experience in multiracial communities.

Author : Matthew McCool
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826489821

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Writing Around the World by Matthew McCool Pdf

An efficient and practical guide for writers who must target their work for another country and culture.

Author : Xiaolu Guo
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307455635

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo Pdf

From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West—and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang—or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who changes everything, leading her into a world of self-discovery. She soon realizes that, in the West, “love” does not always mean the same as in China, and that you can learn all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover. And as the novel progresses with steadily improving grammar and vocabulary, Z's evolving voice makes her quest for comprehension all the more poignant. With sparkling wit, Xiaolu Guo has created an utterly original novel about identity and the cultural divide.

Author : Sheena Gillespie,Robert Becker,Robert Singleton
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0321213181

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Across Cultures by Sheena Gillespie,Robert Becker,Robert Singleton Pdf

Short Retail Description: Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. Each unit contains selections on American culture by American writers, selections by writers from diverse ethnic groups within the United States, and selections by writers writing from or about cultures elsewhere, thus placing American culture and its diversity into a context of world culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : College readers
ISBN : 0558976565

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Across Cultures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Le-Ha Phan,Bradley Baurain
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780857247209

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Voices, Identities, Negotiations, and Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures by Le-Ha Phan,Bradley Baurain Pdf

Provides insights into the process of knowledge construction in EFL/ESL writing - from classrooms to research sites, from the dilemmas and risks NNEST student writers experience in the pursuit of true agency to the confusions and conflicts academics experience in their own writing practices.

Author : Yunxia Zhu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253846

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Written Communication Across Cultures by Yunxia Zhu Pdf

Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006 This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia, New Zealand and China. It is also one of those inspired by contrastive rhetoric but has contributed innovatively and uniquely by incorporating research findings from genre analysis, in particular, the sociocognitive genre perspective into this cross-cultural study. On the one hand, the endeavor represents an in-depth theoretical exploration by considering not only discourse community and cognitive structuring, but also the deep semantics of genre and intertextuality, while broadening genre study by integrating insights from cross-cultural communication as well as the Chinese perspectives. On the other hand, the book also addresses pragmatic issues. As a particular feature, it solicits professional members' intercultural viewpoints; thus confirming the shared social "stock of knowledge" employed in the culturally defined writing conventions. Last but not least, this book explores the implications for genre education and training, and develops an appropriate model for cross-cultural genre learning, which encourages learning through legitimate peripheral participation and intercultural learning in business organizations.

Author : Sheena Gillespie,Robert Singleton
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0205145779

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Across Cultures by Sheena Gillespie,Robert Singleton Pdf

Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, "Across Cultures," strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. Diversity and the interrelationship General Interest

Author : Sheena Gillespie,Terezinha Fonseca,Carol A. Sanger
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0205278531

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Literature Across Cultures by Sheena Gillespie,Terezinha Fonseca,Carol A. Sanger Pdf

With classic and contemporary selections by authors from a wide range of racial and ethnic groups, "Literature Across Cultures, 5/e" introduces the reader to important literary works and helps readers explore critical themes of our times, such as gender and identity, the effects of war and violence, and many more. The 5th edition focuses on the political, social, and multicultural aspects of literary debates related to the dialectics of roots and rebellions, self and society, gender and identity, the causes and effects of war and violence as well as issues of class, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. These features have brilliantly distinguished this volume from other thematic volumes. "Literature Across Cultures, 5/e "Includes both classical and contemporary writers from diverse ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

Author : Heather Bowe,Kylie Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521695572

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Communication Across Cultures by Heather Bowe,Kylie Martin Pdf

Communication Across Cultures explains why speakers from different cultures can often misunderstand each other.