South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Autor Iswari P. Pandeyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2015
Winner of the 2017 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.
In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding at sites as varied as a Hindu school, a Hindu women’s reading group, Muslim men’s and women’s discussion groups formed soon after 9/11, and cross-cultural presentations by these immigrants to the host communities and law enforcement agencies. Through more than seventy interviews, he reveals the migratory nature of literacies and the community work required to make these practices meaningful.
Pandey addresses critical questions about language and cultural identity at a time of profound change. He examines how symbolic resources are invented and reinvented and circulated and recirculated within and across communities; the impact of English and new technologies on teaching, learning, and practicing ancestral languages; and how gender and religious identifications shape these practices. Overall, the book offers a thorough examination of the ways individuals use interpretive powers for agency within their own communities and for cross-cultural understanding in a globalizing world and what these practices mean for our understanding of that world.
In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding at sites as varied as a Hindu school, a Hindu women’s reading group, Muslim men’s and women’s discussion groups formed soon after 9/11, and cross-cultural presentations by these immigrants to the host communities and law enforcement agencies. Through more than seventy interviews, he reveals the migratory nature of literacies and the community work required to make these practices meaningful.
Pandey addresses critical questions about language and cultural identity at a time of profound change. He examines how symbolic resources are invented and reinvented and circulated and recirculated within and across communities; the impact of English and new technologies on teaching, learning, and practicing ancestral languages; and how gender and religious identifications shape these practices. Overall, the book offers a thorough examination of the ways individuals use interpretive powers for agency within their own communities and for cross-cultural understanding in a globalizing world and what these practices mean for our understanding of that world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822963783
ISBN-10: 0822963787
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Composition, Literacy, and Culture
ISBN-10: 0822963787
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Recenzii
“Pandey complicates dominant narratives about religion, increased secularization, and immigrant life in America. He presents an in-depth look at why a group of South Asians are (re)creating and (re)circulating religious literacies and practices. Similarly, Pandey questions the American Dream narrative, demonstrating the complex ways in which life in America can inspire young people to ‘return’ to a country in which they have never lived.”
—Julie Nelson Christoph, University of Puget Sound
—Julie Nelson Christoph, University of Puget Sound
“Timely. Relevant. Important. Pandey presents a much-needed set of understandings and accounts of the literacy practices of transnational immigrants. Several key findings in his work stand to make an immediate and lasting contribution to the field of literacy studies generally and composition and rhetoric specifically. Richly detailed and carefully analyzed, this book offers a fresh qualitative study on South Asian immigrants.”
—Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University
—Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University
Notă biografică
Iswari P. Pandey is assistant professor of English at California State University-Northridge.