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- ISSN: 0010-0994
- E-ISSN: 2161-8178
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The Corrido: A Border Rhetoric
- Source: College English, Volume 71, Issue 6, Jul 2009, p. 596 - 605
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- 01 Jul 2009
Abstract
The border rhetorics that Latino/a students bring into the classroom can help them and other students resist being appropriated by academic discourse. For example, the corrido involves a mimicry of conventions that enables students to envision a fluid identity rather than exchange one identity for another.
© 2009 by the National Council of Teachers of English