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Free Download Robert Radin, "Teaching English to Refugees"
English | ISBN: 3838215028 | 2021 | 124 pages | PDF | 1265 KB
Robert Radin's Teaching English to Refugees does it all, weaving together memoir, philosophy of language, social-justice advocacy, and graphic narrative into a haunting meditation on what can happen when the least powerful among us escape oppression and seek refuge in the United States. With the unerring precision of both linguist and poet, Radin tells a story of teaching English to refugees from such troubled areas of the world as Iraq, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As he struggles to find ways to reach across languages and cultures so disparate they do not even seem to be part of the same world, a quieter story plays out―his own, where multi-generational Jewish legacies get compressed into incisive and singular moments of prose you won't soon forget. Through it all, the voices of his Muslim students―haltingly at first, and then with increasing confidence―carve out a space for being all their own. Like Jenny Erpenbeck's