Trauma and the Teaching of Writing

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Shane Borrowman
SUNY Press, 2005 M01 20 - 240 pages
Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas ranging from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the various appropriations of 9/11. Offering personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, they question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Negotiating Citizenship and Ownership of Response Online
11
Discourses and Teaching In On and About Trauma
29
Remediating National Tragedy and the Purposes for Teaching Writing
53
Teaching in the Wake of National Tragedy
69
How to Make Meaning and Heal Despite National Propaganda
85
Consumerism and the Coopting of National Trauma
99
Beyond the Media Male Leaders and the 1960s Assassinations
113
Loss and Letter Writing
141
Spring 1970 at the University of Washington
157
Reflections on My Experiences in Greece During the Revolution of 1974
169
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been an Academic?
181
Voices from the WPA1 September 1112 2001
201
Contributors
231
Index
237
Copyright

Writing Textbooks infor Times of Trauma
127

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Shane Borrowman is Assistant Professor of English at Gonzaga University.

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