{"id":855,"date":"2011-04-26T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2011-09-21T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:35:45","slug":"writing-across-the-foreignness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.writing.wisc.edu\/blog\/writing-across-the-foreignness\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Across the Foreignness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By John Stafford Anderson.<\/strong><\/em> Saturday, at a party we had celebrating her upcoming dissertation defense, a friend of mine tearfully took me aside.\u00a0 She wanted to know if I would be available next week to help her with some writing points on her dissertation.\u00a0 Of course, I agreed to help, but I wanted to know why she was so tearful at this amazing South African-themed braai being held in her honor.\u00a0 My friend is not prone to drama or gossip; she is quite practical.\u00a0 Since she arrived in Madison, she has maintained course in some particularly ugly storms without needing tissues.\u00a0 The tears were definitely out of place.\u00a0 She pulled me aside, away from the music, out of earshot from others, and dropped the bomb:\u00a0 \u201cmy advisor,\u201d she said, \u201csaid my writing is awful:\u00a0 he said I write like a foreigner.\u201d\u00a0 Well, my friend is a foreigner who is fluent in three languages besides English.\u00a0 How else should she write, I wondered?\u00a0 \u201cHe said I should write like an American,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

I then recognized her tears.\u00a0 Reflecting back on my experiences this year as a first-year instructor in the Writing Center, I recalled seeing those same tears streaming down the cheeks of several UW-Madison international students who have come into the center for help \u201cto not write like a foreigner.\u201d\u00a0 What a dirty word, foreigner.\u00a0 It brings up all sorts of nasty connotations about who, in this country, is better, and why.\u00a0 All I could think of after hearing my friend say this was an imperialistic billionaire with an awful comb-over who is getting a remarkable amount of air time denouncing the President as foreign.\u00a0 I am not sure whether these professors and teaching assistants have comb-overs, but what they inflict upon student writers who are not from the United States is nothing short of cultural imperialism.\u00a0 Of all the perceived-inadequacies and self-diagnosed shortcomings that all students suffer (see Ginger Jurecka Blake\u2019s March 29 post<\/a>), this is more debilitating because the bad writing diagnoses are coming from persons whom students are actively trying to impress.\u00a0 Why is writing like a foreigner bad?\u00a0 Are departments unaware how their new admits write until they arrive?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it a slap in the face of the University\u2019s goals for diversity to offer admittance to a student who speaks and writes differently only to tell them after they arrive that they need to learn to write like an American?\u00a0 How do you teach a person who is fluent in four languages to write like an American?\u00a0 Why is it necessary?\u00a0 And finally, most concerning to me, since all of our literature about us states that \u201cwe can\u2019t perform miracles,\u201d what, exactly, as a Writing Center Instructor is my role in this assimilation project supposed to be?<\/p>\n

\"museumofcortemp_hats\"The Writing Center and its satellites are the most diverse spaces on the UW-Madison campus.\u00a0 While some may guffaw, citing what is lamented as a dearth of diversity on campus, in the Writing Center we see just how international we are.\u00a0 It makes working there all the more special.\u00a0 International students come into the center for myriad reasons, but I am wont to say that the majority come seeking help with their grammar, idioms, endings, and articles because they have been told that mastering such tiny linguistic specks will make their papers read as more American, or less like \u201cit\u2019s written by a stupid foreigner,\u201d as one international student explained the problem with his paper to me recently.\u00a0 It is Writing Center policy that we not focus all of our conversation, session after session, on sentence-level concerns.\u00a0 This may sound brutal, but it is to the writer\u2019s advantage to master real writing instead of stuff that really, arguably, does not impact what is being said.\u00a0 The first time we meet with students who demonstrate the need for help in these areas, we discuss the patterns we see with them, and then point out the governing grammatical rules that have been broken.\u00a0 We conclude the session by sending students home with some self-help tools and examples.\u00a0 At subsequent meetings, if the problem persists, the Writing Center instructor should briefly explain the rules again to help the student fix the mistake, and keep it moving.\u00a0 Some students, of course, attempt to get around the policy by insisting upon line-by-line help with their papers.\u00a0 They will read a line, pause, and wait for praise or correction.\u00a0 This is when we have to gently explain to them that the Writing Center maintains a list of professional proofreaders with whom they can make their own arrangements.\u00a0 This is often met with dismay because most tutors are so concerned about their students\u2019 wellbeing that we will occasionally bend our policies for them, and they become dependent upon us doing so to help them mask their foreignness.\u00a0 When we try to take them deeper than the surface issues, often wounds of deeper writing insecurities surface.\u00a0 Most specifically, the fact that they are not American and probably won\u2019t write like one until having lived here for who knows how many years?<\/p>\n

At the 2007 Wisconsin Book Festival, following her reading from her book Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adiche was asked by a seemingly baffled American woman what should one do to \u201cprepare\u201d to read her novel.\u00a0 When Adichie responding by asking why reading her book required preparation, the woman said it was because it is \u201cso different, so foreign,\u201d and that she didn\u2019t know how to get herself ready to be textually immersed into another culture.\u00a0 Half of a Yellow Sun is set in Nigeria during the Biafran War, and Adichie had just finished reading a passage wherein the characters are enduring the hopelessness of a refugee camp, so her irritated response – how do you think millions of non-American English-speaking peoples prepare to read a novel set in the United States, written by an American author – was timely and expected.\u00a0 The would-be reader found the English being used to write about the culture perplexing, not necessarily the language itself.\u00a0 Essentially, that is what I believe international students are being urged not to do.\u00a0 For instance, recently a woman came for help with a biographical work about veiling in Iraq.\u00a0 She, too, had been encouraged to come to the Writing Center for help not sounding foreign.\u00a0 As she read her paper aloud, there was no issue with articles, idioms, or endings.\u00a0 In fact, being a dissertator in a foreign literature department, had she been one of my students, I would have suggested she try to publish the paper.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t writing like an American because she was not writing an American\u2019s experience:\u00a0 she was writing about her life in Iraq.\"globe1\"<\/p>\n

English Departments are not without merit seen as sites of privilege, even as their doctoral students work on subjects as sensitive as postcoloniality, sexuality, race, and religion.\u00a0 The Writing Center is different however, as we are engaging themes of social justice, writing inclusion, and providing safe spaces and support for writers and their controversial topics.\u00a0 As a Writing Center instructor, I consistently encourage students to find and set-free their inner writing voice.\u00a0 This is not an easy task when one is being admonished for being something other than one happens to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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