The Hands of God at Work (Paperback)

Amber Engelson

ISBN 10: 0814101763 / ISBN 13: 9780814101766

Published by National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte), 2024

About this Item

Paperback. Drawing from ethnographic data collected in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, this book explores how an English-medium Indonesian PhD program in interreligious studies and three Muslim scholar-activists activate knowledge where languages intersect, a process mediated by material circumstances within Indonesia and voices past, present, and future that both are audience to and transcend the traditional geographic and discursive borders associated with them.As they negotiate translingually to make meaning at the borderlands where seemingly discrete discourses intersect, they challenge false divides between rationality and spirituality; between the mind and body; between female agency and Islam; and between English and non-Western meaning-making. By exploring how these scholar-activists engage in translingual praxis to move knowledge from the discursive plane to the material plane and back again to effect social justice across multiple and intersecting languages, audiences, and contexts, this book opens up new ways of understanding translingual negotiation where feminist scholarly activism and Islamic belief intersect. CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hands of God at Work (Paperback)
• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814101763
• ISBN 13: 9780814101766
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Drawing from ethnographic data collected in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, this book explores how an English-medium Indonesian PhD program in interreligious studies and three Muslim scholar-activists activate knowledge where languages intersect, a process mediated by material circumstances within Indonesia and voices past, present, and future that both are audience to and transcend the traditional geographic and discursive borders associated with them.

As they negotiate translingually to make meaning at the borderlands where seemingly discrete discourses intersect, they challenge false divides between rationality and spirituality; between the mind and body; between female agency and Islam; and between English and non-Western meaning-making. By exploring how these scholar-activists engage in translingual praxis to move knowledge from the discursive plane to the material plane and back again to effect social justice across multiple and intersecting languages, audiences, and contexts, this book opens up new ways of understanding translingual negotiation where feminist scholarly activism and Islamic belief intersect. CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric

About the Author

Amber Engelson is a professor of English and director of writing at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She teaches first-year writing and undergraduate courses in global comparative rhetorics, feminist rhetorics, writing center theory and praxis, and creative nonfiction. In addition to teaching, she directs MCLA’s Writing Studio and coordinates the college’s first-year writing program as well as campuswide WAC initiatives. Her work has appeared in College English, Literacy in Composition Studies, and various edited collections.