Beschreibung
A Life in Teaching: An Autoethnography is a cultural study; a narrative, it is a story in history about the life of the author. It embraces criticality: it is explicitly metatextual, as the author comment upon the choices she makes as a writer, weaving theory into practice.
Rezension
"Judith Summerfield’s latest book,
is a celebration of all the ways a story can be told: through family history both harrowing and mundane, through elegiac portraits of place, through photographs of people living and dead (and recipes in their handwriting), and above all through the act of writing stories into being. It’s part folk art, part writing manual, part cultural history. This is a book to read with a pencil in your hand, because Summerfield will inspire her readers to commit their own stories to shimmering life."
Crystal Benedicks, Ph.D., Department of English, Co-Chair of First-Year Experience, Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum
"In
Judith Summerfield weaves together individual and collective history to reflect on the texts, people, places, and institutions that have informed her thoughtful work as a teacher, writer, and higher education administrator. Interspersing personal memoir with engaging writing exercises, Summerfield not only explores the narrative compositions of her life but also asks readers to reflect on stories of their own.
is a powerful and poignant testament to the ways in which we are all connected and an argument for why we must continue to strive to understand ourselves and others, through storytelling, reading, writing, listening, and community."
Caroline Hellman, Ph.D., Professor of English/Interim Special Assistant to the President, City Tech, CUNY
Inhalt
Acknowledgments – List of Illustrations – A Note on the Cover – Introduction – Prologue – Primary Lessons, Building Blocks, Foundations – Family: Language, Grammar, Story as History – Getting the Words Onto the Page – The Wider World – Cathedrals of Learning – Starting Out, As a Teacher – Balancing Acts – On Keeping a Notebook – Queens College and the Writing Movement – You Have the Grammar – You Have the Story – Intersections – Building Community – Ways of Telling, Reading, Writing – Bridging the Gaps – Epilogue: Odds and Ends – Index.
