In this Book
- Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity
- 2007
- Book
- Published by: Utah State University Press
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A set of creative writers here responds to the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are—where, for each of them, being somehow part of the academy. Their personal essays delineate the diverse, sometimes unexpected roles of place in shaping them, as writers and teachers in varied environments, through unique experiences and distinctive worldviews—in reconfiguring their conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between.
Offering creative comments on place, identity, and academic work are authors Charles Bergman, Mary Clearman Blew, Jayne Brim Box, Jeffrey M. Buchanan, Norma Elia Cantú, Katherine Fischer, Kathryn T. Flannery, Diana Garcia, Janice M. Gould, Seán W. Henne, Rona Kaufman, Deborah A. Miranda, Erin E. Moore, Kathleen Dean Moore, Robert Michael Pyle, Jennifer Sinor, Scott Slovic, Michael Sowder, Lee Torda, Charles Waugh, and Mitsuye Yamada.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. vi-vii
- I. Introduction
- pp. 1-2
- 1. Writing Place
- pp. 3-24
- II. Here
- pp. 25-26
- 2. Six Kinds of Rain
- pp. 27-38
- 4. Valley Language
- pp. 52-64
- III: There
- pp. 107-108
- 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
- pp. 167-168
- 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
- pp. 215-216
- 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
- pp. 285-286
- 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
English
Open Access
Yes
Copyright
2007