Writing on the Move: Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy

by Rebecca Lorimer Leonard

Book Overview

Winner of the 2019 CCCC Outstanding Book Award. 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965054
• ISBN13: 9780822965053
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"