When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own: Jacqueline Jones Royster
From a collectiviments over the years, I have concluded that the most salient knowledge is that "subject" position really is everything
Subjectivity as a defining value pays attention to context, ways of knowing, language abilities, and experiencing so it has a consequent potential to deepen, broaden, interpretive views in dynamic ways as well
the multidimensionality of the instruction also shift in paradigms, a need that I find especially evid notion of "voice," as a central manifestation of subjectivity
The call for action in crossboundary exchange is to refine theory and practice so that they include voicing as a phenomenon that is constructed and expressed visually and orally and as a phenomenon that has import also in being a thing heard, perceived, and reconstructed
when the subject matter is me and the voice is not mine, my sense of order and rightness is disrupted* --seen a lot in the discussion on women's reproductive rights, indigenous peoples rights (mascots, keystone pipeline, indigenous peoples day)
through the lens of subjectivity, in terms of the power and authority to speak and to make meaning
interpretations by those outside of the community are not random acts of unkindness. They embody ways of seeing, knowing, being, and acting that probably suggest as much about the speaker and the context as they do about the targeted subject matter
This analytical perspective encouraged us to acknowledge that marginalized communities are not in a good position to ward off the intrusion of those authorized in mainstream communities to engage in willful action
This scene convinces me that what we need in a pressing wa country and in our very own field is to articulate codes of behvious that can sustain more concretely notions of honor, respect, and good macross boundaries, with cultural boundaries embodying the need most vividly
Those of us who love our communities… must set aside our misgivings about strangers in the interest of the possibility of deeper understanding-- needs to be reciprocal: find ways to sustain productivity in what Pratt calls contact zones!
challenge is to teach, to engage in research, to write, and to speak with Others
I love her ideas and wish it were a reality, but it seems like its too good to ever be true
we do not have a paradigm that really allows for what scholars in cultural and postcolonial studies (Anzuldua, Spivak, Mohanty, Bhaba) have called hybrid people to move with dexterity across cultural boundaries, to make themselves comfortable, and to make sense amid the chaos of difference.
The goal is better practices so that we can exchange perspectives, negotiate meaning, and create understanding with the intent of being in a good position to cooperate, when, like now, cooperation is absolutely necessary.
Composing as a Woman: Elizabeth A. Flynn
composition specialists replace the figure of the authoritative father with an image of a nurturing mother
A feminist approach to composition studies would focus on questions of difference and dominance in written language
found that the quest for self and voice plays a central role in transformations of women way of knowing
Sense of self is embedded either in external definitions and roles or in identifications with institutions, disciplines, and methods
Student writing: kathy with the train in germany: I actually had a similar experience while i was studying in Copenhagen; A boy look charge of the group and the directions of where we needed to go. He was confused as to which train to get on and decided on one. I knew he was wrong, so I said i think that wrong, it should be this train. He disagreed and i did not want to have to deal with his masculine need to be a leader so i just went along. This definitely highlights the difference in a woman’s and man’s voice that Flynn describes