Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-206) and index.

Introduction: literacy, power, and the shaping of identity / Bronwyn T. Williams -- Institutions and struggles for identity -- Social class as discourse: the construction of subjectivities in English / James Zebroski -- Excellence is the name of the (ideological) game / Patricia Harkin -- The feminist WPA project: fear and possibility in the feminist "home" / Shannon Carter -- When "MS. Mentor" misses the mark: literacy and lesbian identity in the academy / Tara Pauliny -- Identity in the composition classroom -- She toiled for a living: writing lives and identities of older female students / Mary Hallet -- Literacy, identity, and the "successful" student writer / William Carpenter and Bianca Falbo -- Speaking from the borderlands: exploring narratives of teacher identity / Janet Alsup -- "Who are they and what do they have to do with what i want to be?" the writing of multicultural identity and college success stories for first-year writers / James R. Ottery -- Identity outside the institutional walls -- Migratory and regional identity / Robert Brooke -- Some trouble with discourses: what conflicts between subjects and ethnographers tell us about what students don't/won't/can't say / Sally Chandler -- Composing (identity) in a posttraumatic age / Lynn Worsham -- Conclusion: working bodies: class matters in college composition / Min-zhan Lu.

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