Revealing Silence: Rethinking Personal Writing

Abstract

Joseph Conrad's tale The Secret Sharer reminds us of the human double, the doppleglinger or twin that represents the other (or under) side of a person. Interpreters of Conrad frequently explain that the fully mature man at the end of The Secret Sharer emerges from an integration of the two. Without acknowledging and incorporating his other (and darker) self, the young captain narrator would never become an adult. I make a similar claim about composition's capacious term personal writing. Briefly, I want to call attention to its other (silent) side as a way of mediating among the conflicting discourses that currently swirl around personal writing and as a way of rethinking the pedagogies

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