How do historically marginalized groups expose the partiality and
presumptions of educational institutions through autobiographical
acts? How are the stories we tell used to justify resistance to
change or institutional complacency? These are the questions Wendy
S. Hesford asks as she considers the uses of autobiography in
educational settings. This book demonstrates how autobiographical
acts -- oral, written, performative, and visual -- play out in
vexed and contradictory ways and how in the academy they can become
sites of cultural struggle over multicultural education, sexual
harassment, institutional racism, hate speech, student activism,
and commemorative practices.
Within the context of Oberlin, a small liberal arts college in
Ohio, this book looks at the uses of autobiographical practices in
empowering groups traditionally marginalized in academic settings.
Investigating the process of self-representation and the social,
spatial, and discursive frames within which academic bodies and
identities are constituted, Framing Identities explores the use of
autobiographical acts in terms of power, influence, risks involved,
and effectiveness. Hesford provides a model for teacher-researchers
across the disciplines (education, English, composition, cultural
studies, women's studies, to name a few) to investigate the
contradictory uses and consequences of autobiography, and to carve
out new pedagogical spaces.
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