{"product_id":"writing-on-the-move-9780822965053","title":"Writing on the Move","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2019 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard shows how multilingual migrant women both succeed and struggle in their writing contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow is literacy revalued as it moves across borders and boundaries? What forms does literate mobility take? What functions does the process of literate valuation perform? Refreshingly insightful and profoundly original, \u003ci\u003eWriting on the Move\u003c\/i\u003e offers an indispensable framework for theorizing about these questions and for understanding how competing social and economic forces shape, recognize, and regulate migrant literate lives.\"\" - LuMing Mao, Miami University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eWriting on the Move\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to transnational literacy studies. It not only complicates our understanding of literate repertoires performed in everyday life by migrant women with rich and resonant lives; it also extends our vocabulary of motive by critically examining how fixity, friction, and fluidity inform their literate values. A must-read in a time of great peril for immigrants in the U.S.\"\" - Juan C. Guerra, University of Washington at Seattle","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151181869399,"sku":"9780822965053","price":37.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822965053.jpg?v=1762960378","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-on-the-move-9780822965053","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}