Table of Contents

CONTENTS; 1 Introduction: Literacy, Power, and the Shaping of Identity000 Bronwyn T. Williams PART I: INSTITUTIONS AND STRUGGLES FOR IDENTITY; 2 Social Class as Discourse: The Construction of Subjectivities in English000 James Zebroski; 3 Excellence is the Name of the (Ideological) Game000 Patricia Harkin; 4 The Feminist WPA Project: Fear and Possibility in the Feminist "Home"000 Shannon Carter; 5 When "Ms. Mentor" Misses the Mark: Literacy and Lesbian Identity in the Academy000 Tara Pauliny PART II: IDENTITY IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM; 6 She Toiled for a Living: Writing Lives and Identities of Older Female Students000 Mary Hallet; 7 Literacy, Identity, and the "Successful" Student Writer000 William Carpenter and Bianca Falbo; 8 Speaking from the Borderlands: Exploring Narratives of Teacher Identity000 Janet Alsup; 9 "Who Are They and What Do They Have to Do with What I want to Be?" The Writing of Multicultural Identity and College Success Stories for First-Year Writers000 James R. Ottery PART III: IDENTITY OUTSIDE THE INSTITUTIONAL WALLS; 10 Migratory and Regional Identity000 Robert Brooke; 11 Some Trouble with Discourses: What Conflicts Between Subjects and Ethnographers Tell Us About What Students Don't/Won't/Can't Say000 Sally Chandler; 12 Composing (Identity) in a Posttraumatic Age000 Lynn Worsham; 13 Conclusion: Working Bodies: Class Matters in College Composition000 Min-Zhan Lu Notes000 References000 Contributors000

About the Author

Bronwyn T. Williams is associate professor of English at the University of Louisville. He writes and teaches about issues of literacy, identity, popular culture, and cross-cultural communication. His books include Tuned In: Television and the Teaching of Writing and Written on the Screen: Representations of Literacy in Popular Culture with Amy A. Zenger. He also writes a column on issues of Literacy and Identity for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.