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This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, Author Katie Silvester speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life during resettlement and in the context of waves of social change brought on by the end of their asylum. In the process, she demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies might: Reconfigure and reformulate with others how we come to understand the literacy, hope, and violence in specific migrations; and Use the stories that students bring with them to the classroom about their backgrounds to promote literacy learning. The stories in this book aren't just powerful; as the world becomes smaller and instructors everywhere find themselves teaching students of increasingly diverse backgrounds, this book provides insight for teaching literacies across cultural landscapes.

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Katie Silvester is an associate professor of English and coordinator of multilingual writing at Indiana University Bloomington. Her work appears in Literacy in Composition Studies and in the edited collections Critical Views on Teaching and Learning English around the Globe: Qualitative Research Approaches, edited by Jos. Aldemar lvarez V. et al.; Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning: Practitioner Ethnographies of Adult Education in the United States, edited by Janise Hurtig and Carolyn Chernoff; and Plurilingual Pedagogies for Multilingual Classrooms: Engaging the Rich Communicative Repertoires of U.S. Students, edited by Kay M. Losey and Gail Shuck.

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