Subject Present: Life-Writings and Strategies of Representation: 78 (Counterpoints) - Softcover

Zuss, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820439479 ISBN 13: 9780820439471

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Autobiographical writings provide unique windows for reflection on experience, knowledge, and social relations. Combining insights from American pragmatism, contemporary feminism, and poststructuralism, Subject Present explores how autobiographical writings weave patterns of identity from language, race, and gender. Dialogic literary strategies for representing the complexity of individual and collective experience are presented as models for rethinking the place of the subject of education in a multicultural society. Subject Present traces the historical context of the individual and illustrates how postmodern and feminist ''life-writings'' create new ways of imagining identity.

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About the Author

The Author: Mark Zuss is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Reading Program at Lehman College, City University of New York. His research and teaching focus on cross-cultural, historical contexts of writing and reading practices, literacy and cognitive development, and qualitative studies in narrative research. He is also the author of two collections of poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820439479
• ISBN 13: 9780820439471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262