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Using Games To Make Something: Of Our Students, Our Pedagogies, Our Field. A Review Essay Of Gee & Hayes (2011), Squire (2011), Steinkuehler Et Al (2012), And Thomas & Brown (2011), Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
If there’s one thing that writing instructors are known for it’s innovation. Compositionists, because of our connection between academia and industry, the humanistic and the technical, the creative and the practical, are often some of the first to explore and adopt new technologies. In this review essay, I introduce how games and digital technologies can help our students “make” new thing. Understanding how games can link with literary practices, multimodal composition, creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, and more can help researchers in rhetoric and composition make important contributions to our field: Make games with the knowledge of what actually works …
Academic Writing, Emily Purser
Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
Alfred J. Lopez begins his introduction to postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire by stating "Whiteness is not, yet we continue for many reasons to act as though it is" (1). He is especially interested in "what happens to whiteness after empire," and proposes that it be understood as a dynamic relation of power. Despite the critical scrutiny it has attracted from whiteness studies, the racial category retains much of its ideological force. "The concept of whiteness as a cultural hegemon," Lopez argues, is manifest in "its lingering, if somewhat latent, hegemonic influence over much of the …
Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
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Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
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Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
This essay examines two recent novels by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Purple Hibiscus ([2003] 2005) andHalf a YellowSun (2006), placing themfirst in a dialogue with each other, and more broadly with selected Nigerian writing on the Biafra conflict. Arguing with Adesanmi that Adichie belongs to a ‘third generation’ of African literary work, it traces the novels’ work of historical revisionism through gendered and embodied discourses of pain and violence. Adichie returns the reader to an aesthetics of excess firmly grounded on potently disturbing images of the ‘body in pain’, in Elaine Scarry’s memorable phrase (1983): the battered, bruised and …
Writing As Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres Da Costa And Alice Pung, Wenche Ommundsen
Writing As Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres Da Costa And Alice Pung, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
Mina Pereira, the narrator of Suneeta Peres da Costa's novel Homework, is born with feelers on top of her head:small protuberances, or antennae, which grow bogger at times of emotional stress. 'She might be a little bit sensitive, thats all' (Peres da Costa, 1999:5), her parents explain, defending their daughter against insensitive strangers accusing her of being an alien, and extraterrestrial, a mutant. Mina is sensitive, as is the young protagonist of Alice Pung's autobiographical narrative Unpolished Gem, sensitive to their difference as reflected in the eyes and behaviour of schoolmates and friends, sensitive, in particular, to cultural …
Auslit: Resource For Australian Literature - Australian Multicultural Writers, Wenche Ommundsen
Auslit: Resource For Australian Literature - Australian Multicultural Writers, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
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Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen
Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
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Work In Progress: Multicultural Writing In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen
Work In Progress: Multicultural Writing In Australia, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
Multiculturalism, write Pnina Werbner, is 'an important rhetoric and an impossible practice'. My morning news paper on Australia Day 2006 reminded me of just how important, and how impossible, Australian multiculturalism remains three decades after its inception. 'PM claims victory wars', read the front-page headline. The article, a report on John Howard's address to the National Press Club, details the Prime Minister's retreat from the 'excesses of multiculturalism' and the 'black armband' view of history associated with the Keating Labor government (1991-96), and his conviction that the 'divisive, phoney debate about national identity' has come to an end, replaced by …
Bastard Moon: Essays On Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Bastard Moon: Essays On Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
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From "Hello Freedom" To "Fuck You Australia": Recent Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
From "Hello Freedom" To "Fuck You Australia": Recent Chinese-Australian Writing, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
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Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History, Wenche Ommundsen, B. Edwards
Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History, Wenche Ommundsen, B. Edwards
Wenche Ommundsen
No abstract provided.
‘This Story Does Not Begin On A Boat’: What Is Australian About Asian Australian Writing?, Wenche Ommundsen
‘This Story Does Not Begin On A Boat’: What Is Australian About Asian Australian Writing?, Wenche Ommundsen
Wenche Ommundsen
With reference to recent debates about the politics of representation, this paper argues that a profound ambivalence about identity, and particularly about Asian Australian identity, is a common characteristic that marks this writing as specifically Australian. Tracing cultural contexts from the 'pathologies' of Australian multicultural debates to other transnational literary traditions, the paper issues examples from the writing of Brain Castro, Alice Pung, Ouyang Yu, Nam Le, Shaun Tan, and Tom Cho to speculate on the emergence of a new and distinct phase of transnational writing in Australia.