The binary thinking and essentialism prevalent in U.S. dominant discourses on rhetoric, learning, teaching, and gender construct and maintain various stereotypes that hinder millions of Chinese international students in America from finding, transforming, or asserting their identities in the dominant discourses of American academia and culture. Contributing to the discussion of issues essential to the field of rhetoric and composition, pedagogy, and gender studies, as well to a better understanding of international students from various perspectives, this project discusses how the western paradigms of rhetoric, pedagogy, and gender have dismissed Chinese international students' teacher, writer, student, and gender identities as abnormalities to be deconstructed.This project uses identity theories of Michel Foucault to investigate how individual identities both submit to and resist the dominant discourses; it also draws upon Homi Bhabha's postcolonial theory to explore the possibility of creating a space where individual identities blur the binaries while negotiating with dominant discourse from both cultures
Product Identifiers
Publisher
AV Akademikerverlag Gmbh & Co. KG
ISBN-10
3639011724
ISBN-13
9783639011722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79846119
Product Key Features
Author
Peiling Zhao
Publication Name
Reconstructing Writer, Student, Teacher, and Gender Identities-Chinese Students in Americ
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Topic
Gender Studies, Student Life & Student Affairs, General, Higher, Social Psychology