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Using Careless Speech For Careful, Well Crafted Writing--Whatever Its Style, Peter Elbow
Using Careless Speech For Careful, Well Crafted Writing--Whatever Its Style, Peter Elbow
English Department Faculty Publication Series
I write here to correct a common misreading of my work. I've not been fighting all these years just to make writing easier by loosening standards; I've been fighting to make writing better. Especially in my recent *Vernacular Eloquence*, I've been trying help people use their vernacular spoken language to produce writing that is nevertheless careful and excellent--to break out of the unclear, roundabout, or mashed-potatoes prose they so often produce when they try to write right.
Decolonizing Texts: A Performance Autoethnography, Hari Stephen Kumar
Decolonizing Texts: A Performance Autoethnography, Hari Stephen Kumar
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
I write performance autoethnography as a methodological project committed to evoking embodied and lived experience in academic texts, using performance writing to decolonize academic knowledge production. Through a fragmented itinerary across continents and ethnicities, across religions and languages, across academic and vocational careers, I speak from the everyday spaces in between supposedly stable cultural identities involving race, ethnicity, class, gendered norms, to name a few. I write against colonizing practices which police the racist, sexist, and xenophobic cultural politics that produce and validate particular identities. I write from the intersections of my own living experiences within and against those cultural …