Compositions, A Life
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-9464-1 (ISBN)
A Life in Teaching: An Autoethnography is a cultural study; a narrative, it is a story in history about the life of the author. It embraces criticality: it is explicitly metatextual, as the author comment upon the choices she makes as a writer, weaving theory into practice.
lt;p>Judith Pearl Summerfield's career in higher education is unparalleled. Her writing, teaching, teacher research, and university-wide program development have been honored by major local, state, and national organizations, including being named New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. The author or editor of ten books, and dozens of scholarly chapters and articles, she also writes fiction and poetry, and keeps a daily journal.
Compositions, A Life: An Autoethnography is a story of Summerfield's life and career, and, simultaneously, a self-conscious example of how to tell such stories. Told by a master storyteller, who is also a scholar of narrative, and a compelling teacher of writing and literature, the book embraces a meta-textual approach. Summerfield focuses on ethnographic elements of language, family, culture, and history, beginning with her childhood in a coal mining town in southwestern Pennsylvania with a story-telling father who survived the Russian Revolution in Ukraine, and a mother who insisted she learn proper English usage. She chronicles her education during the feminist, Civil Rights, and cultural revolutions of the last century, and critically self-examines her 40 years of teaching and leadership at The City University of New York (1972-2015).
The book is a tour de force mix of illustrative writing styles, designed as models for learning and teaching composition/rhetoric, literature, and critical or aesthetic reading. The book includes twenty-five writing prompts, and twenty-plus images to engage reader response, and can be used in introductory writing courses, graduate and professional programs, and in community writing groups.
Judith Pearl Summerfield, Professor of English, Emerita, Queens College, The City University of New York. B.A., English and History, M.A., English, University of Pittsburgh. Ph.D., English Education, New York University. Her writing, teaching, teacher research, and university-wide program development have been honored by major local, state, and national organizations, including being named New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. The author or editor of ten books, and dozens of scholarly chapters and articles, she also writes fiction and poetry, and keeps a daily journal.
lt;p>Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: How We Tell the Stories of Our Lives
Prologue: Points of Departure--The Potato Poem
Part I: Where I Come From: Time and Place, Family and History
1: Primary Lessons, Foundations, Building Blocks
2: Family: Language, Grammar, Story as History
3: Getting the Words on the Page
4: The Wider World
Part II: College Life
5: Cathedrals of Learning
6: Starting Out, As a Teacher
Part III: New York, New York
7: Balancing Acts
8. On Keeping a Notebook
9: Landings: Queens College and The Writing Movement
Part IV: CUNY: The Public University
10. You Have the Grammar
11: You Have the Story
12: Intersections
Part V: Transformative Spaces
13. Building Community
14: Ways of Telling, Reading, Writing
15: Bridging the Gaps
16. Epilogue: Odds and Ends
"Judith Summerfield's latest book, Compositions, a Life: An Autoethnography, is a celebration of all the ways a story can be told: through family history both harrowing and mundane, through elegiac portraits of place, through photographs of people living and dead (and recipes in their handwriting), and above all through the act of writing stories into being. It's part folk art, part writing manual, part cultural history. This is a book to read with a pencil in your hand, because Summerfield will inspire her readers to commit their own stories to shimmering life." Crystal Benedicks, Ph.D., Department of English, Co-Chair of First-Year Experience, Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Counterpoints ; 545 |
| Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Shirley R. Steinberg |
| Zusatzinfo | 21 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 352 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Alison • An Autoethnography • Autoethnography • Composition • compositions • Compositions, a Life • Culture • Curriculum • Diversity/Immigration • History • Jefferson • Judith • Judith Pearl Summerfield • language • learning • Life • Literature • Memory • Narrative/Story • Schooling • Shirley • Sociolinguistics • Steinberg • Summerfield • Teaching • Textimage |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4331-9464-3 / 1433194643 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4331-9464-1 / 9781433194641 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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