Critical storytelling : multilingual immigrants in the United States /

"This edited book is a beautiful and powerful collection of poems and personal and visual narratives of multilingual immigrants in the United States. The purpose of this book is to create a space where immigrant stories can be told from their personal perspectives. The contributors are immigran...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pentón Herrera, Luis Javier (Editor), Tính Trịnh, Ethan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, [2021]
Series:Critical storytelling
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Gloria Park
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Poetry Immigrant Background Students' Names and Identities in U.S. Schools : Voices from the Underground / Lydiah Kananu Kiramba ; This Is Our Summons Now / R. Joseph Rodríguez ; Gringo or Rican or Just Me / Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velázquez ; Spaces in Between / Sharada Krishnamurthy ; "¡Vamos Mijo, I Know You Can Do This!" / Manuel De Jesús Gómez Portillo ; El Sacrificio de una Madre : A Mother's Sacrifice / Ana Bautista ; Domestic Tongues / Mauricio Patrón Rivera ; Mariposa : A Two-Part Poem / Zurisaray Espinosa ; Beloved / Jamie Harris
  • Part 2. Personal narratives. Subtle Bangla Traits / Ben Haseen ; You Had Better Turn off the Fan : Communicative Competence in Practice / Jiyoon Lee ; Como una Leona : Shielding My Son from Discrimination at School / Aracelis Nieves ; Every Word Is True : An Autoethnography to Unravel My Story / Babak Khoshnevisan ; Quê Hương / Ethan Tính Trịnh ; I Lost My Language But Your Child Doesn't Have To / May F. Chung ; Pagbabalik : Does It Even Matter? / Sandy Tadeo ; My Life's Metamorphosis : Becoming Bilingual / Luis Javier Pentón Herrera ; Giving back When Most in Need / Geovanny Vicente Romero ; Journeying through Transnational Spaces : A Reflexive Account of Praxis and Identity Construction / Rajwan Alshareefy and Cristina Sánchez-Martín ; Story Weaving : Tejidos de Conocimientos Que Nos Conectan al Territorio / Judith Landeros ; Entre la Tierra y los Sueños / Pablo Montes ; The Power of Digital Storytelling for English Language Education : A Reflective Essay / Polina Vinogradova ; Lost and Found : A Story of Reclaiming Identities / Bashar Al Hariri and Fatmeh Alalawneh ; The Weight of a Name : My Names and Stories across Lands and Time / Tairan Qiu.