Conversing across Cultural Boundaries: Rewriting "Self.".

Gale, Xin Liu

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ERIC Number: EJ487724

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Publication Date: 1994

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Conversing across Cultural Boundaries: Rewriting "Self."

Gale, Xin Liu

Journal of Advanced Composition, v14 n2 p455-62 Fall 1994

Describes the confusion and sense of dislocation felt by one Chinese woman who entered the United States to begin graduate studies in English. Narrates how this feeling of dislocation motivated the woman to undertake a search for her "self," a process that shaped her as an individual and as a teacher. (HB)

Descriptors: Autobiographies, Chinese Americans, Cultural Differences, Graduate Study, Personal Narratives, Self Concept, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Research

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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