Re-Reading Student Texts: Intertextuality and Constructions of Self and Other in the Contact Zone

Autor/in	Rodriguez, Karen
Titel	Re-Reading Student Texts: Intertextuality and Constructions of Self and Other in the Contact Zone
Quelle	In: Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 13 (2006), S.43-64 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1085-4568
Schlagwörter	Multicultural Education; Creative Writing; International Educational Exchange; Exchange Programs; Foreign Countries; Study Abroad; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Differences; Literary Criticism; Global Approach; Discourse Analysis; Poetry; College Students; Higher Education; Self Concept; Perspective Taking; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Multikulturelle Erziehung; Kreatives Schreiben; Internationaler Austausch; Exchange programme; Exchange program; Exchange programmes; Austauschprogramm; Ausland; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kultureller Unterschied; Literaturkritik; Globales Denken; Diskursanalyse; Lyrik; Poesie; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Selbstkonzept; Zukunftsperspektive; Mexiko
Abstract	This article examines a student poem about a common gendered experience in Guanajuato, Mexico, which was written by a student in a creative writing group the author led during a one-semester study abroad program she directs for CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange). The article posits Guanajuato as a contact zone where Mexican culture and US culture meet in myriad ways on a daily basis. It introduces the notion of intertextuality to complicate the typical way they might read the text. After looking at one possible US interpretation that might be given to this piece, it tries not to discredit it, but to de-privilege it as the only possible interpretation. The article does this first by opening up several interpretive possibilities within the text and, second, by taking the student text into the wider interpretive domain to look at what the local other is also expressing textually in the midst of intercultural contact. It considers two types of local texts: a t-shirt genre that is currently popular and the ubiquitous bar flyer handed out on the streets of Guanajuato. (Contains 11 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10