Writing Across Difference: Theory and Intervention
As the nation becomes increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian governance, scholars in writing studies have strived to develop responsive theories and practices to engage students, teachers, administrators, and citizens in the crisis of division and to begin the complicated work of radically transforming our inequitable institutions and society. Writing Across Difference is one of the first collections to gather scholars from across the field engaged in offering theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical resources for understanding, interrogating, negotiating, and writing across difference.
 
No text in composition has made such a sweeping attempt to place the multiple areas of translingualism, anti-racism, anticolonialism, interdisciplinarity, and disability into conversation or to represent the field as broadly unified around the concept of difference. The chapters in this book specifically explore how monolingual ideology is maintained in institutions and how translingual strategies can (re)include difference; how narrative-based interventions can promote writing across difference in classrooms and institutions by complicating dominant discourses; and how challenging dominant logics of class, race, ability, and disciplinarity can present opportunities for countering divisiveness.
 
Writing Across Difference offers writing scholars a sustained intellectual encounter with the crisis of difference and foregrounds the possibilities such an encounter offers for collective action toward a more inclusive and equitable society. It presents a variety of approaches for intervening in classrooms and institutions in the interest of focalizing, understanding, negotiating, and bridging difference. The book will be a valuable resource to those disturbed by the bigotry, violence, and fanaticism that mark our political culture and who are seeking inspiration, models, and methods for collective response.
 
Contributors: Anis Bawarshi, Jonathan Benda, Megan Callow, James Rushing Daniel, Cherice Escobar Jones, Laura Gonzales, Juan Guerra, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Katie Malcolm, Nadya Pittendrigh, Mya Poe, Candice Rai, Iris Ruiz, Ann Shivers-McNair, Neil Simpkins, Alison Y. L. Stephens, Sumyat Thu, Katherine Xue, Shui-yin Sharon Yam
 
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Writing Across Difference: Theory and Intervention
As the nation becomes increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian governance, scholars in writing studies have strived to develop responsive theories and practices to engage students, teachers, administrators, and citizens in the crisis of division and to begin the complicated work of radically transforming our inequitable institutions and society. Writing Across Difference is one of the first collections to gather scholars from across the field engaged in offering theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical resources for understanding, interrogating, negotiating, and writing across difference.
 
No text in composition has made such a sweeping attempt to place the multiple areas of translingualism, anti-racism, anticolonialism, interdisciplinarity, and disability into conversation or to represent the field as broadly unified around the concept of difference. The chapters in this book specifically explore how monolingual ideology is maintained in institutions and how translingual strategies can (re)include difference; how narrative-based interventions can promote writing across difference in classrooms and institutions by complicating dominant discourses; and how challenging dominant logics of class, race, ability, and disciplinarity can present opportunities for countering divisiveness.
 
Writing Across Difference offers writing scholars a sustained intellectual encounter with the crisis of difference and foregrounds the possibilities such an encounter offers for collective action toward a more inclusive and equitable society. It presents a variety of approaches for intervening in classrooms and institutions in the interest of focalizing, understanding, negotiating, and bridging difference. The book will be a valuable resource to those disturbed by the bigotry, violence, and fanaticism that mark our political culture and who are seeking inspiration, models, and methods for collective response.
 
Contributors: Anis Bawarshi, Jonathan Benda, Megan Callow, James Rushing Daniel, Cherice Escobar Jones, Laura Gonzales, Juan Guerra, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Katie Malcolm, Nadya Pittendrigh, Mya Poe, Candice Rai, Iris Ruiz, Ann Shivers-McNair, Neil Simpkins, Alison Y. L. Stephens, Sumyat Thu, Katherine Xue, Shui-yin Sharon Yam
 
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As the nation becomes increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian governance, scholars in writing studies have strived to develop responsive theories and practices to engage students, teachers, administrators, and citizens in the crisis of division and to begin the complicated work of radically transforming our inequitable institutions and society. Writing Across Difference is one of the first collections to gather scholars from across the field engaged in offering theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical resources for understanding, interrogating, negotiating, and writing across difference.
 
No text in composition has made such a sweeping attempt to place the multiple areas of translingualism, anti-racism, anticolonialism, interdisciplinarity, and disability into conversation or to represent the field as broadly unified around the concept of difference. The chapters in this book specifically explore how monolingual ideology is maintained in institutions and how translingual strategies can (re)include difference; how narrative-based interventions can promote writing across difference in classrooms and institutions by complicating dominant discourses; and how challenging dominant logics of class, race, ability, and disciplinarity can present opportunities for countering divisiveness.
 
Writing Across Difference offers writing scholars a sustained intellectual encounter with the crisis of difference and foregrounds the possibilities such an encounter offers for collective action toward a more inclusive and equitable society. It presents a variety of approaches for intervening in classrooms and institutions in the interest of focalizing, understanding, negotiating, and bridging difference. The book will be a valuable resource to those disturbed by the bigotry, violence, and fanaticism that mark our political culture and who are seeking inspiration, models, and methods for collective response.
 
Contributors: Anis Bawarshi, Jonathan Benda, Megan Callow, James Rushing Daniel, Cherice Escobar Jones, Laura Gonzales, Juan Guerra, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Katie Malcolm, Nadya Pittendrigh, Mya Poe, Candice Rai, Iris Ruiz, Ann Shivers-McNair, Neil Simpkins, Alison Y. L. Stephens, Sumyat Thu, Katherine Xue, Shui-yin Sharon Yam
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646421725
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2022
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

James Rushing Daniel is associate teaching professor at the University of Washington-Seattle. His research has been published in College English, Philosophy and Rhetoric, College Composition and Communication, and other venues. He is also the author of Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition.
Katie Malcolm is associate director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Washington.
Candice Rai is associate professor of English at the University of Washington-Seattle. She is coeditor of Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion and author of Democracy’s Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention.
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Centering Difference in Composition Studies James Rushing Daniel Katie Malcolm Candice Rai 3

Part I Personal, Embodied, and Theoretical Engagements

1 An Embodied History of Language Ideologies Juan C. Guerra 21

2 "Gathering Dust in the Dark": Inequality and the Limits of Composition James Rushing Daniel 39

3 Desconocimiento: A Process of Epistemological Unknowing through Rhetorical Nepantla Iris D. Ruiz 56

4 Exploring Discomfort Using Markers of Difference: Constructing Antiracist and Anti-ableist Teaching Practices Stephanie L. Kenchbaum 77

Part II Classroom and Curricular Praxis

5 Whole-Self Rhetoric: Teaching the Justice Situation in the Composition Classroom Nadya Pittendrigh 97

6 Rewriting the Biology of Difference: How a Writing-Centered, Case-Based Curricular Approach Can Reform Undergraduate Science Megan Callow Katherine Xue 116

7 Disability Identity and Institutional Rhetorics of Difference Neil F. Simpkins 136

8 Interrogating the Deep Story: Storytelling and Narratives in the Rhetoric Classroom Shui-yin Sharon Yam 153

Part III Institutional, Community, and Public Transformations

9 Designing across Difference: Intersectional, Interdependent Approaches to Sustaining Communities Laura Gonzales Ann Shivers-McNair 175

10 Antiracist Translingual Praxis in Writing Ecologies Sumyat Thu Katie Malcolm Candice Rai Anis Bawarshi 195

11 Confronting Superdiversity Again: A Multidimensional Approach to Teaching and Researching Writing at a Global University Jonathan Benda Cherice Escobar Jones Mya Poe Alison Y. L. Stephens 218

Index 239

About the Authors 247

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