| Writing on the Move: Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy Contributor(s): Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822965054 ISBN-13: 9780822965053 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
| Dewey: 302.224 |
| LCCN: 2018285662 |
| Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this book, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard shows how multilingual migrant women both succeed and struggle in their writing contexts. Based on a qualitative study of everyday multilingual writers in the United States, she shows how migrants' literacies are revalued because they move with writers among their different languages and around the world. Writing on the Move builds a theory of literate valuation, in which socioeconomic values shape how multilingual migrant writers do or do not move forward in their lives. The book details the complicated reality of multilingual literacy, which is lived at the nexus of prejudice, prestige, and power. |