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Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity
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Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity
Book
edited by Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman
2007
Published by:
Utah State University Press
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summary
Twenty-one writers answer the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are--where, for each of them, being in some way part of academia. In personal essays, they imaginatively delineate and engage the diverse, occasionally unexpected play of place in shaping them, writers and teachers in varied environments, with unique experiences and distinctive world views, and reconfiguring for them conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between.
Contents
I Introduction Writing Place, Jennifer Sinor
II Here
Six Kinds of Rain: Searching for a Place in the Academy, Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore
The Work the Landscape Calls Us To, Michael Sowder
Valley Language, Diana Garcia
What I Learned from the Campus Plumber, Charles Bergman
M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter, Katherine Fischer
On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College, Sean W. Henne
III There
Levittown Breeds Anarchists Film at 11:00, Kathryn T. Flannery
Living in a Transformed Desert, Mitsuye Yamada
A More Fortunate Destiny, Jayne Brim Box
Imagined Vietnams, Charles Waugh
IV Everywhere
Teaching on Stolen Ground, Deborah A. Miranda
The Blind Teaching the Blind: The Academic as Naturalist, or Not, Robert Michael Pyle
Where Are You From? Lee Torda
V In Between
Going Away to Think, Scott Slovic
Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life, Norma Elia Cantu
Bones of Summer, Mary Clearman Blew
Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World, Janice M. Gould
Making Places Work: Felt Sense, Identity, and Teaching, Jeffrey M. Buchanan
VI Coda
Running in Place: The Personal at Work, in Motion, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood, Rona Kaufman
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Table of Contents
pp. vi-vii
I. Introduction
1. Writing Place
pp. 3-24
II. Here
2. Six Kinds of Rain
pp. 27-38
3. The Work the Landscape Calls Us To
pp. 39-51
4. Valley Language
pp. 52-64
5. What I Learned from the Campus Plumber
pp. 65-82
6. M-I-Crooked Letter- Crooked Letter
pp. 83-97
7. On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College
pp. 98-106
III: There
8. Levittown Breeds Anarchists! Film at 11
pp. 109-124
9. Living in a Transformed Desert
pp. 125-138
10. A More Fortunate Destiny
pp. 139-151
11. Imagined Vietnams
pp. 152-165
IV: Everywhere
12. Teaching on Stolen Ground
pp. 169-187
13. The Blind Teaching the Blind
pp. 188-201
14. Where Are You From?
pp. 202-214
V: In Between
15. Going Away to Think
pp. 217-232
16. Fronteriza Consciousness
pp. 233-242
17. Bones of Summer
pp. 243-253
18. Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World
pp. 254-268
19. Making Places Work
pp. 269-285
VI: Coda
20. Running in Place
pp. 287-302
Contributors
pp. 303-307
Additional Information
ISBN
9780874215496
Related ISBN(s)
9780874216578
MARC Record
OCLC
123567611
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
2007
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