The Muse of History
About: This article is published in Critique-studies in Contemporary Fiction.The article was published on 1962-12-01. It has received 75 citations till now.
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20 Jan 1995
TL;DR: The Post-Colonial Studies Reader as discussed by the authors is the essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field.
Abstract: The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalization. The Reader's wide-ranging approach reflects the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline along with the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.
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TL;DR: The term "remediation" and "basic writing" emerged at critical moments in the history of American higher education as mentioned in this paper and became a popular designation in education journals in the 1920s in response to an everincreasing number of under-prepared lower class and immigrant students who began to enter the educational system at the turn of the century.
Abstract: The terms “remediation” and “Basic Writing” emerged at critical moments in the history of American higher education. Used originally to describe students who suffered from neurological problems, “remediation” became a popular designation in education journals in the 1920s in response to an ever-increasing number of under-prepared lower class and immigrant students who began to enter the educational system at the turn of the century (Rose 343, 349). These students’ reading and writing “disabilities” needed “remediation” before the students were prepared to enter the academic community. Similarly, “Basic Writing” instruction matured as a field in the 1970s, the era of the G.I. Bill and the open admissions policy at CUNY. Open admissions prepared the way for thousands of non-traditional students “whose difficulties with the written language [Mina Shaughnessy tells us] seemed of a different order . . . as if they had come, you might say, from a different country” (2). These students, Shaughnessy explains, were indeed “strangers in academia, unacquainted with the rules and rituals of college life” (3). These racial and rural “strangers” whose “other” languages and dialects posed problems so great as to appear, in the words of their teachers, “irremediable” Hunzer, Kathleen M. “Misperceptions of Gender in the Writing Center: Stereotyping and the Facilitative Tutor.” The Writing Lab Newsletter 22.2 (1997): 6-10.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of embodied securityscape, arguing that asylum seekers embody a point of articulation between two differently located security nexuses: security-migration and security-development.
Abstract: This article introduces the concept of an embodied securityscape, arguing that asylum seekers embody a point of articulation between two differently located security nexuses: security-migration and security-development. Drawing on Brian Chikwava's novel Harare North, the article illustrates this articulation, not only in the thematic development of the embodied experiences of the narrator, but also in the way the novel articulates differently located conventions of form. Ultimately, the article argues that this embodied securityscape, as illustrated through this novel, produces an alternative narrative space for the messy politics of asylum.
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TL;DR: Alison Donnell as mentioned in this paper returns to the material object of Edward Baugh's essay, published in the pages of the Trinidadian little magazine Tapia in 1977, in order to re-read the force of its arguments in the context of its own politicocultural history and assess the significance of its publication venue.
Abstract: In this essay Alison Donnell returns to the material object of Edward Baugh's essay, published in the pages of the Trinidadian little magazine Tapia in 1977, in order to re-read the force of its arguments in the context of its own politicocultural history and to assess the significance of its publication venue. Donnell attends to Baugh's own standing in the highly charged field of Caribbean literary criticism as a critic of both Walcott and Naipaul, and acknowledges his creative contribution to this field as a poet. She also considers how, in the years between the original publication of Baugh's article and its republication, the questions of historical invisibility have entered newly disputed territories that demand attention to how gender, indigeneity, spirituality, and sexuality shape ideas of historical and literary legitimacy, in addition to those foundational questions around a politics of race and class.
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