NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Murdock, Chelsea – Community Literacy Journal, 2017
This article considers fan fiction as (self-)publication, particularly noting the tensions between institutional notions of textual production within academia and how fan writing works against paradigms of publishing espoused in higher education. Such tensions are indicative of institutional pressures for "legitimate" publications.…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Fiction, Faculty Publishing, Higher Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Grobman, Laurie – Community Literacy Journal, 2015
This co-authored article describes a community literacy oral history project involving 14 undergraduate students. It is intellectually situated at the intersection of writing studies, oral history, and African American rhetoric and distinguished by two features: 1) we were a combined team of 20 collaborators, and 2) our narrator, Frank Gilyard,…
Descriptors: Oral History, Literacy, Undergraduate Students, African Americans
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Long, Elenore; Fye, Nyillan; Jarvis, John – Community Literacy Journal, 2012
This article analyzes a group of Gambian-American college writers creating an alternative public to challenge the patronizing norms operating in prevailing "aid-to-Africa" rhetorics. These young rhetors evoked performative genres and hybrid discourses so that members of their local public (the African nationals, African American…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, African Culture, Behavior Standards, Foreign Countries