INVESTIGATING OUR DISCURSIVE HISTORY: JBW AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE "BASIC WRITER'S" IDENTITY

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Beteiligte: Gray-Rosendale, Laura
In: Journal of Basic Writing, 18, 1999, 2, S. 108-135
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City University of New York
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Umfang: 108-135
ISSN: 0147-1635
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Basic Writing
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstoras14
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<p>This paper offers a brief Foucauldian archaeological and discursive history of the Journal of Basic Writing because of its central place in the history of our scholarship. In doing so, this paper attempts to accomplish the following: 1) describe some of the broad historical features of the construction of Basic Writers' identities, 2) examine instances that appear within the journal in which critical disruptions and overlaps of such constructions occur in unexpected, telling ways, and 3) explore what such discursive moments reveal about trends and tendencies within the scholarship and history of Basic Writing itself Thus the paper attempts to provide an alternative, metanarrative-resisting history of the journal itself, suggesting the values as well as problems within the current state of the construction of Basic Writers' identities in our scholarship, and presenting some speculations about future constructions of Basic Writers' identities.</p>