Trauma and the Teaching of Writing
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780791462775
Subjects: Study and teaching; Psychological aspects; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; United States; Rhetoric; Composition & Creative Writing - General; English language; Composition and exercises
First sentence: IN THE APRIL 2002 issue of Harper's Magazine, Thomas de Zengotita argued pessimistically that, six months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, much of the American public was "over it."
Description: "Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas ranging from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the various appropriations of 9/11. Offering personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, they question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing."--Jacket.