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"What a glorious book! Language and social identities are indeed complex, and this book points out the depth of this complexity in both beautiful and touching ways. In stories full of heartbreak, humor, whimsy, and affection, the writers in this book complicate what it means to speak one's own, or others', language at the dawn of the twenty-first century in the United States."
-Sonia Nieto, School of Education, University of Massachusetts

"Language Crossings is a fascinating and inspiring tour, a marvelous polyglot display of the rich complexities, even contradictions, that accompany language learning and identity formations. This collection artfully reminds us how compelling are the stories about gain, loss, love, merging, conflict, and revelation that we and language always manage to tell."
-Keith Gilyard, Professor of English, The Pennsylvania State University

"an immensely rich and absorbing book which contains intensely personal narratives that help to illuminate the struggles and rewards of language learning and the many ways in which language and identity are intertwined."
-Maria Mazziotti Gillan, co-editor with Jennifer Gillan, Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing Up Ethnic in America

This vivid collection explores the fascinating connections between language use, language learning, and one's cultural identity. The essays, many of them by well-known writers, represent a diversity of cultures, ages, and nationalities, making the wide range of viewpoints they present both entertaining and instructional. In a time when issues of cultural identity are constantly explored and hotly debated, this volume illuminates the dynamic interaction between the personal, the political, and the theoretical. It is an essential read in a multicultural world.

Contributors: Mimi Bluestone, Sharon Shelton Colangelo, Susan Driscoll, Elizabeth Dykman, Margie English, Stephanie Hart, George Jochnowitz, Christina Kotchemidova, Carolina Mancuso, Rita E. NegrŪn Maslanek, Doug Millison, Watson R. Millison, Raimundo Mora, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Myrna Nieves, Elizabeth NuŅez, Linda Petrucelli, David Rodgers, Fredy Amilcar Roncalla, Robert Roth, Ruby Sprott, Verena Stefan, Susan Stocker, Cora AcebrŪn Tolosa, Pramila Venkateswaran

November 2000/192 pp/Pb., $22.95/0-8077-3998-7/Cl., $52/0-8077-3999-5
Language and Literacy Series

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