Writing on the Move

Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Composition & Creative Writing, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
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Author: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard ISBN: 9780822983040
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: February 20, 2018
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: Rebecca Lorimer Leonard
ISBN: 9780822983040
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: February 20, 2018
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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