Discourse Wars in Gotham-West: A Latino Immigrant Urban Tale of Resistance & Agency

by Marc Pruyn

In Discourse Wars in Gotham-West, Marc Pruyn paints a multi-layered and textured picture of a year-long critical ethnography he conducted of a community-based, Freirean-inspired adult Spanish literacy project against the postmodern backdrop of urban, working class Los Angeles. Pruyn engagingly draws us into the lives of one group of adult Latina/o learners recently immigrated as refugees from Central America and Mexico who sought to develop their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813390672
• ISBN13: 9780813390673
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages