HASEDE-LUDT, Erika, Cynthia M. CHAMBERS et Carl LEGGO, Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times, Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Oxford / Wien, Peter Lang (Complicated Conversation A Book Series of Curriculum Studies), 2009, 255 p.
ISBN 978-1-4331-0306-3
RÉSUMÉ
This book introduces literary métissage as a way to research, teach,and live ethically «with all our relations» in our precarious times.The authors theorize and perform literary métissage through the praxisof life writing, braiding their autobiographical texts, in various(mixed) genres, into seven themes. Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Timesexplores this writing praxis, with its more inclusive and generativenotions of knowledge and knowledge practices, as a tool for creatingmore just societies and schools.
BIOGRAPHIE
Erika Hasebe-Ludt is an associate professor of teacher education in theFaculty of Education at The University of Lethbridge. She teaches andresearches in the areas of language and literacy, and curriculumstudies. In addition to various articles in edited books and journals,she is the coeditor (with Wanda Hurren) of Curriculum Intertext: Place/Language/Pedagogy.Together with Cynthia Chambers, Carl Leggo and other researchers, sheis investigating life writing as one of the new literacies in Canadiancosmopolitan schools.
Cynthia Chambers is a professor in theFaculty of Education at The University of Lethbridge. She teaches andresearches in curriculum studies, language and literacy, and indigenousstudies. Her essays, memoir and stories have been published in editedcollections and various periodicals. As well as the research on lifewriting, she works collaboratively with indigenous communities onliteracies of place, human relations and the material world.
CarlLeggo is a poet and professor in the Department of Language andLiteracy Education at the University of British Columbia. He teachescourses in English education, writing, and narrative inquiry. CarlLeggo's poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in manyjournals. He is the author of several books including: Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill, View from My Mother's House, Come-By-Chance, and Teaching to Wonder: Responding to Poetry in the Secondary Classroom. Also, he is a co-editor of Being with A/r/tography (with Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, and Peter Gouzouasis), and of Creative Expression, Creative Education (with Robert Kelly).