Alternative Discourse: Notes from "One Story of Many to Be Told" (Roozen; Lunsford)

Alternative discourse--a term Roozen and Lunsford coin...is it a term that I can adopt for my reading of Murray's work???

Initially, the frame alternative discourse as "creative nonfiction, dramatic dialogues, and satire" (195).

Alternative discourse frequently dots the landscape of NCTE journals; in fact, such texts are common enough that to label them "alternative" discourse is an anachronism. (196)

And this leads me to think that alternative discourse, as they intend the word, does not capture what Murray was up to, as much as I may wish that it did: "the earlier texts are worth rescuing from oblivion because their counter-discourses challenged, parodied, and played with the basic grounds of empirical research." (196)

...they were antagonistically deployed to critique "scientific" approaches--i.e., primarily quantative techniques. (196)

...these examples remind us that Writing Studies emerged from a complex mixture of disciplinary traditions, and that tensions still to be resolved have deep historical roots. (198)