Counterstory

Aja Y. Martinez

Description

Named one of the 20 Best New Rhetoric Books to Read in 2021 by BookAuthority

Winner of the 2021 Vision Award from the Coalition for Community Writing 

Humanities scholar Aja Y. Martinez makes a compelling case for counterstory as methodology in rhetoric and writing studies through the well-established framework of critical race theory (CRT), reviewing first the counterstory work of Richard Delgado, Derrick Bell, and Patricia J. Williams, whom she terms counterstory exemplars. Delgado, Bell, and Williams, foundational critical race theorists working in the respective counterstory genres of narrated dialogue, fantasy/allegory, and autobiography, have set precedent for others who would research and compose with this method.

Arguing that counterstory provides opportunities for marginalized voices to contribute to conversations about dominant ideology, Martinez applies racial and feminist rhetorical criticism to the rich histories and theories established through counterstory genres, all the while demonstrating how CRT theories and methods can inform teaching, research, and writing/publishing of counterstory.

About the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series
In this series, the methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in various fields that inform composition—including rhetoric, communication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse—ranging from individual writers and teachers, to classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching.

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Writers and Teachers, Part 1. Chapter 1 - Getting Inside: Measuring Something Other Than Progress. Writers and Teachers, Part 2. Chapter 2 - The Process of Re-Membering: The Case for Relationality as Decolonial Practice. Writers and Teachers, Part 3. Chapter 3 - Toward Relational Methodologies: Learning from the Work of Indigenous Scholars. Writers and Teachers, Part 4. Chapter 4 - Opportunities and Options: Relationality at New Folsom. Writers and Teachers, Part 5. Afterword. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Author.

Sujets

• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• Subjects
• Teaching
• EDUCATION
• Tubo de rayos catódicos
• Richard Delgado
• Derrick Bell
• Patricia J. Williams
• General officer
• Subject
• Writing
• Rhetoric
• General
• CRT
• Discrimination

Informations

• Publié par: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Date de parution: 16 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780814100264
• Langue: English

Extrait

CCCC STUDIES IN WRITING & RHETORIC

Edited by Steve Parks, University of Virginia

The aim of the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric ( SWR) Series is to influence how we think about language in action and especially how writing gets taught at the college level. The methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in various fields that inform composition—incl uding rhetoric, communication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse— ranging from individual writers and teachers, to work on classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching. SWR was one of the first scholarly book series to f ocus on the teaching of writing. It was established in 1980 by the Conference on College Co mposition and Communication (CCCC) in order to promote research in the emerging field of writing studies. As our field has grown, the research sponsored by SWR has continued to articulate the commitment of CCCC to supporting the work of writing teachers as reflective practitioners and intellectuals. We are eager to identify influential work in writing and rhetoric as it emerges. We thus ask authors to send us project proposals that clearly situate their work in the field and show how they aim to redirect our ongoing conversations about writing and its teaching. Proposals should include an overview of the project, a brief annotated table of contents, and a sample chapter. They should not exceed 10,000 words. To submit a proposal, please register as an author atwww.editorialmanager.com/nctebp. Once registered, follow the steps to submit a proposal (be sure to choose SWR Book Proposal from the drop-down list of article submission types).