Crossing Borderlands: Composition And Postcolonial Studies

Description

On the surface, postcolonial studies and composition studies appear to have little in common. However, they share a strikingly similar goal: to provide power to the words and actions of those who have been marginalized or oppressed. Postcolonial studies accomplishes this goal by opening a space for the voices of "others" in traditional views of history and literature. Composition studies strives to empower students by providing equal access to higher education and validation for their writing. For two fields that have so much in common, very little dialogue exists between them. Crossing Border.;""Contents""; ""1. Composition and Postcolonial Studies: An Introduction / Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane ""; ""2. Composing Postcolonial Studies / Min-Zhan Lu ""; ""3. Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric: Gloria Anzalda on Composition and Postcoloniality / Andrea A. Lunsford ""; ""4. Terms of Engagement: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Composition Studies / Deepika Bahri ""; ""5. Encountering the Other: Postcolonial Theory and Composition Scholarship / Gary A. Olson ""; ""6. Pratt and Pratfalls: Revisioning Contact Zones / R. Mark Hall and Mary Rosner ""