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Fragments of Rationality - Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition (Paperback)
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Fragments of Rationality - Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition (Paperback)
Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
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An assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the
larger theoretical, political and technological upheavals of the
past 30 years, ""Fragments of Rationality"" asks why composition
studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other
humanities and social science disciplines. For Lester Faigley, the
very conservativism of composition teaching - which has resisted
the challenges of postmodern thought - makes it a revealing object
of study. Composition at first seemed ready to accommodate
postmodern ideas, but by the late 1980s, writing teachers were
beginning to question many of the traditional presumptions
underlying their approach to the task. This crisis in theory has
come just as the tenacious back-to-basics movement, a heightened
emphasis on education for economic productivity, cuts in funding
for public education, and the increasing gap between the haves and
the have-nots in US society have forced teachers to consider the
role of literacy instruction in reproducing social inequality.
Drawing on the insights of Foucault, Lyotard and other postmodern
analysts, Faigley addresses the theoretical debate about the
""self"" the student writer is asked to occupy, the ""modernist""
goal of producing a rational, coherent student subject, and the
writing instructor's unconscious imposition of elite values and
expectations in evaluating student work. He explores how networked
computer technologies in writing classrooms are destabilising texts
and subjects, and he asks what this loss of authority will mean for
teachers of literacy. Faigley concludes by arguing that the
electronically mediated culture in which we live has not brought an
end to meaning, history, or subjectivity, but it does require
thinking through the politics of location. In postmodern theory he
finds ways of describing how subjects encounter boundaries in
negotiating across competing discourses, and how awareness of those
boundaries can be introduced into classroom practice.
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