College Composition and Communication Feb 2024

Digging the Archives in Composition Stretch Pedagogies: Reclamation of Historical Rhetorics to Support Chicanx Emotions of Belonging

Loretta Victoria Ramirez

Abstract

Initiating a transdisciplinary composition stretch pedagogy, I examine students’ excavations of archives to advance epistemological freedoms in support of rhetorical sovereignty in student writings. Grounded in Latinx studies first-year composition, I analyze archival projects wherein Chicanx students seek rhetorical inheritances, questing to locate textual homes and emotions of belonging.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2024-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc2024753483
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition archival research race and writing

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