Essays exploring transnational composition as a site for engaging with
difference.Transnational composition is a site for engaging with
difference across populations, economies, languages, and borders and for
asking how cultures, languages, and national imaginaries interanimate
one another.Organized in three parts, the book addresses the
transnational in composition in scholarship, teaching, and
administration. It brings together contributions from institutional,
geopolitical, and cultural contexts ranging across North America,
Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Caribbean
and covers writing in English, Chinese, multiple European languages,
Latin American Spanish, African and West Indian Creoles, and Guianan
French. Exploring the relationship among transnational, international,
global, and translingual approaches to composition--while complicating
the term composition itself--essays draw on theories of border work,
mobility, liminality, cross-border interaction, center-periphery
contours, superdiversity, and transnational rhetoric and address, among
other topics, models of cognitive processing, principles of universal
design, and frames of critical literacy awareness.