Review of Toward Translingual Realities in Composition: (Re)Working Local Language Representations and Practices, by Nancy Bou Ayash

Review by Yasmine Romero

Resources

Throughout my podcast, I reference my current IRB-approved research project on Hawai'i Pidgin. This project interrogates how K–12 teachers view Pidgin in the schools; it also is a research action project. I am not a speaker of Pidgin, but I am invested in supporting my students, colleagues, and community members in creating avenues for scholarly and arts-based Pidgin work. All participants have been given pseudonyms.

I also reference my work in assessment at my home institution, which is a collaboration between my colleagues. Our work in assessment can be found on our placement page.

I also include in this page a working bibliography that helped me understand/gauge Nancy Bou Ayash's (2019) work, as well as works I referenced in this review.

Working Bibliography

• Bou Ayash, Nancy. (2019). Toward translingual realities in composition: (Re)working local language representations and practices. Utah State University Press.
• Burke, Kenneth. (1955). Linguistic approaches to problems of education. In Nelson B. Henry (Ed.), Modern philosophies and education: The fifty-fourth yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (pp. 259–303). University of Chicago Press.
• Canagarajah, A. Suresh. (1999). Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching. Oxford University Press.
• Canagarajah, A. Suresh (Ed.). (2013). Writing as translingual practice in academic contexts: Between communities and classrooms. Taylor and Francis.
• Crenshaw, Kimberle. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
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• Gilyard, Keith. (2016). The rhetoric of translingualism. College English, 78(3), 284–289.
• Higgins, Christina. (2010). Raising critical language awareness in Hawai'i at Da Pidgin Coup. In Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise, & Angela Bartens (Eds.), Creoles in education: A critical assessment and comparison of existing projects (pp. 31–54). https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.36.02hig
• Inoue, Asao B. (2015). Antiracist writing assessment ecologies: Teaching and assessing writing for a socially just future. The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2015.0698
• Matsuda, Paul K. (2013). It’s the wild west out there: A new linguistic frontier in US college composition. In A. S. Canagarajah (Ed.), Literacy as translingual practice (pp. 128–138). Routledge.
• Ratcliffe, Krista. (2005). Rhetorical listening: Identification, gender, whiteness. Southern Illinois University Press.
• Rhodes, Jacqueline. (1996). Rediscoveries, returns, reclamations: The feminist project of eclaiming rhetorica. Composition Forum, 7, 58–64.
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• Ruiz, Iris D. (2021). Critiquing the critical: The politics of race and coloniality in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS) research traditions. In Alexandria L. Lockett, Iris D. Ruiz, James Chase Sanchez, & Christopher Carter (Eds.), Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods (pp. 39–79). The WAC Clearinghouse: University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2021.1206
• Tamura, Eileen H. (1996). Power, status, and Hawai'i Creole English: An example of linguistic intolerance in American history. Pacific Historical Review, 65(3), 431–454. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640023
• Tonouchi, Lee A. (2004). Da state of Pidgin Address. College English, 67(1), 75–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/4140726
• Young, Morris. (2002). Standard English and student bodies: Institutionalizing race and literacy in Hawai'i. College English, 64(4), 405–431. https://doi.org/10.2307/3250745