Identity Matters: Schooling The Student Body In Academic Discourse (suny Series In Public Policy)

blends Memoir And Scholarship To Provide A Moving And Sometimes Unsettling Look At How Academic Discourse Affects The Cultural Values And Identities That Students Bring Into The Writing Classroom. identity matters......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 1. Material Conditions of Identity Politics, or How Identity Matters in Public and Academic Discourses......Page 24 interchapter one: Home Places......Page 45 2. Academic Discourse and Subject Production: Toward a Technology of Power......Page 48 interchapter two: Learning My Class......Page 81 3. Turning Ourselves into Subjects: Identification, Power, and Desire......Page 84 interchapter three: The Imposter in Me......Page 111 4. Colonialism, Capitalism, and Composition: Structural Limitations on Composing Identities......Page 116 interchapter four: Loss and Gain......Page 151 5. The Turn to Identity: Multiplicity and Agency within Material Relations of Power......Page 154 interchapter five: My Blindness......Page 201 6. Writing Matters: Revitalizing Agency......Page 204 Appendix......Page 234 chapter two......Page 236 chapter five......Page 237 Works Cited......Page 240 B......Page 250 E......Page 251 I......Page 252 M......Page 253 S......Page 254 U......Page 255 Z......Page 256 identity matters 2 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 1. Material Conditions of Identity Politics, or How Identity Matters in Public and Academic Discourses 24 interchapter one: Home Places 45 2. Academic Discourse and Subject Production: Toward a Technology of Power 48 interchapter two: Learning My Class 81 3. Turning Ourselves into Subjects: Identification, Power, and Desire 84 interchapter three: The Imposter in Me 111 4. Colonialism, Capitalism, and Composition: Structural Limitations on Composing Identities 116 interchapter four: Loss and Gain 151 5. The Turn to Identity: Multiplicity and Agency within Material Relations of Power 154 interchapter five: My Blindness 201 6. Writing Matters: Revitalizing Agency 204 Appendix 234 Notes 236 INTRODUCTION 236 chapter two 236 chapter four 237 chapter five 237 Works Cited 240 Index 250 A 250 B 250 C 251 D 251 E 251 F 252 G 252 H 252 I 252 J 253 K 253 L 253 M 253 N 254 O 254 P 254 R 254 S 254 T 255 U 255 V 256 W 256 Z 256 Annotation "Identity Matters explores the question that consistently plagues composition teachers: why do their pedagogies so often fail? Donna LeCourt suggests that the answer may lie with the very identities, values, and modes of expression higher education cultivates. In a book that "does precisely what it theoreizes, LeCourt analyzes student-written literacy autobiographies to examine how students interact with and challenge cultural theories of identity. This analysis demonstrates that writing instruction does, indeed, matter and has a significant influence on how students imagine their potential in both academic and cultural realms. LeCourt paints not only a compelling and vexing picture of how students interact with academic discourse as both mind and body, but also offers hope for a reconceived pedagogy of social-material writing practice Material Conditions Of Identity Politics, Or How Identity Matters In Public And Academic Discourses -- Academic Discourse And Subject Production : Toward A Technology Of Power -- Turning Ourselves Into Subjects : Identification, Power, And Desire -- Colonialism, Capitalism, And Composition : Structural Limitations On Composing Identities -- The Turn To Identity : Multiplicity And Agency Within Material Relations Of Power -- Writing Matters : Revitalizing Agency. Donna Lecourt. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 229-238) And Index.