This groundbreaking book examines the genre of literacy autobiography among migrant scholars and students, coining the term "transnational literacy autobiography". This book is essential reading for scholars and students of applied linguistics, TESOL and literacy studies, as well as tutors of writing and composition worldwide.

Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies, and is Director of the Migration Studies Project in the Departments of Applied Linguistics and English at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Acknowledgements

Part I: ¿¿¿¿¿¿: An invitation

Part I preface

Chapter 1: Literacy Autobiographies in Transnational Space

Chapter 2: The Shaping of Literacy Autobiographies

Chapter 3: Emergence of the Translingual Subject

Chapter 4: Negotiation Strategies in Transnational Literacy

Chapter 5: Dispositions of Transnational Literacies

Chapter 6: ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿

Part II: An Illustrative Set of Literacy Autobiographies

Part II preface

Chapter 7: Writing toward Beauty - Ruth Parrish Sauder

Chapter 8: Rediscovering Heritage Identity through Literacy - Bendi Tso

Chapter 9: Writing with a Chinese Heart - Lifeng Miao

Chapter 10: Image and Learning: The Story of My Literacy - Jialei Jiang

Chapter 11: The Mermaid's Immortal Soul: Myth, Disillusionment, and the Birth of a Translingual Identity - Randi Anderson

Chapter 12: Negotiating Contrasting Languages and Rhetorics - Jingjing Lai

Chapter 13: Beyond Contrastive Rhetoric: My First and Second Language Literacy Development - Shuo Zhao

Chapter 14: Shuttling between Three Languages and Rhetorics - Xiaoqing Ge

Chapter 15: Reconstructing Voice: A Personal Journey - Eunjeong Lee

Chapter 16: Buenos Aires mon Amour: Memories from Learning to Become a Pluriliterate Teacher - Natalia A. Guzman

Chapter 17: Recreation and Education: Exploring my Embodied Engagement in English and Korean Literacies - Michael Chesnut

Index