Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference

Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference

<DIV><DIV><P>Twenty-first-century technological innovations have revolutionized the way we experience space, causing an increased sense of fragmentation, danger, and placelessness. In <I>Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference</I>, Nedra Reynolds addresses these problems in the context of higher education, arguing that theories of writing and rhetoric must engage the metaphorical implications of place without ignoring materiality.</p><P><I>Geographies of Writing</I> makes three closely related contributions: one theoretical, to reimagine composing as spatial, material, and visual; one political, to understand the sociospatial construction of difference; and one pedagogical, to teach writing as a set of spatial practices. Aided by seven maps and illustrations that reinforce the book’s visual rhetoric, <I>Geographies of Writing</I> shows how composition tasks and electronic space function as conduits for navigating reality.</P></DIV></DIV>