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\nComposition Forum 36, Summer 2017  \nRe/Visioning Asian American Literacy Narratives through the DALN  \nMorris Young  \nWhen I began my work on theorizing literacy narratives in the 1990s as a graduate student, one of my goals was to build on the generic features described by Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen in their influential article,“Reading Literacy Narratives,” and to consider how these generic features were both taken up and disrupted by subjects who had often been constructed as on the margins of literacy. One of my central arguments was that subjects in marginalized positions use literacy narratives to re/vision their relationship to literacy, examine the promise and peril of literacy, and to narrate a life that is in constant negotiation with their position in culture. Focusing specifically on Asian American literacy narratives, I wanted to understand how these narratives functioned as a rhetoric of citizenship, that is, as a way of belonging, whether through imagined but meaningful forms of cultural citizenship or official but often regulatory forms of legal citizenship in a nation-state. In some cases, this meant affirming a belief in citizenship, to connect the promise of literacy with the promise of America. In other cases, this meant challenging citizenship, to reveal literacy as a myth that often reinforced structural inequality and resulted in material consequences for people marked by race, gender, national origin, language, or other signs of difference.  \nThe work of Minor Re/Visions, then, was to theorize a method for examining representations of literacy in Asian American narratives. I wanted to be able to understand how the trope of literacy functioned across genre (whether in memoir, fiction, poetry, or some other form), across time (from early 20th C. immigration narratives or labor narratives of Californian farm workers to life in late 20th C. America), and across space (in places shaped by culture such as Chinatowns or plantations in Hawai’i) . But I also wanted to reframe these narratives as a specific type of public writing that functioned not simply as identity narratives but as complex presentations of the relationship between identity and literacy within larger socio-historical-cultural contexts. These narratives—America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka—revealed histories of language discrimination, social attitudes that inextricably linked race and literacy, and schooling that disciplined children for not meeting the contours of citizenship. That is, these narratives served as a type of public rhetoric to unpack and interrogate histories that were often hidden and bigotry that was often naturalized.  \nThis brings me to the work of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), a digital space that functions to make the work of literacy narratives public and to both reveal and challenge complex practices and histories of literacy. In the context of my own work, what I have found fascinating (and gratifying) in the DALN is the range of Asian and Asian American literacy narratives that document the experiences of people who engage critically with questions of language, literacy, and culture. Below are some thoughts on the significance of the DALN in re/visioning Asian American literacy narratives.  \nAsian/Asian American Archive  \nPerhaps the most important contribution of the DALN is its function as an archive, as a place where stories about language and literacy and their impact in the lives of people may be collected, shared, and studied. A simple keyword search for “Asian” returns about 200 entries, ranging from conventional literacy narrative assignments from a firstyear writing course, to video interviews of scholar-teachers describing their own trajectory of coming","cbCaih639E5zqfQH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih639E5zqfQH","pdf",54302,"English","# Composition Forum 36, Summer 2017\n## Re/Visioning Asian American Literacy Narratives through the DALN\n## Asian/Asian American Archive\n## Narrating Transnational Literacy","[{\"question\":\"What is the central argument about literacy narratives in marginalized positions?\",\"answer\":\"Marginalized subjects use literacy narratives to re/vision their relationship to literacy, examine its promise and peril, and narrate lives constantly negotiated with their cultural position.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the DALN help analyze Asian American literacy narratives?\",\"answer\":\"The DALN provides an archive for collecting, sharing, and studying stories about language and literacy, enabling researchers to examine generic features across genre, time, and space.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the DALN narratives connected to citizenship?\",\"answer\":\"The narratives function as rhetorics of citizenship, either affirming a belief in citizenship by linking literacy to the promise of America or challenging citizenship by revealing literacy as a myth tied to structural inequality.\"}]","Re/Visioning Asian American Literacy Narratives through the DALN - Morris Young | PDF",1792087929]