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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Looking Back at Literacy: What It Did to Us; What We Did with It; 1. Elias Boudinot and the Cherokee Phoenix: The Sponsors of Literacy They Were and Were Not -- Ellen Cushman; 2. Testimony as a Sponsor of Literacy: Bernice Robinson and the South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Program's Literacy Activism -- Rhea Estelle Lathan; 3. Beyond the Protestant Literacy Myth -- Carol Mattingly; 4. Writing the Life of Henry Obookiah: The Sponsorship of Literacy and Identity -- Morris Young. |
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Part Two: Looking Now at Literacy: A Tool for Change?5. Sponsoring Education for All: Revisiting the Sacred/Secular Divide in Twenty-First-Century Zanzibar -- Julie Nelson Christoph; 6. Connecting Literacy to Sustainability: Revisiting Literacy as Involvement -- Kim Donehower; 7. Toward a Labor Economy of Literacy: Academic Frictions -- Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu; 8. The Unintended Consequences of Sponsorship -- Eli Goldblatt and David A. Jolliffe. |
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9. Making Literacy Work: A "Phenomenal Woman" Negotiating Her Literacy Identity in and for an African American Women's Club -- Beverly J. Moss and Robyn Lyons-Robinson10. Seeking Sponsors, Accumulating Literacies: Deborah Brandt and English Education -- Michael W. Smith; 11. Combining Phenomenological and Sociohistoric Frameworks for Studying Literate Practices: Some Implications of Deborah Brandt's Methodological Trajectory -- Paul Prior; Part Three: Looking Forward at Literacy: The Global and Multimodal Future. |
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12. Beyond Literate Lives: Collaboration, Literacy Narratives, Transnational Connections, and Digital Media -- Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. HawisherEpilogue: Literacy Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies with Notes on the Place of Deborah Brandt -- Harvey J. Graff; Afterword -- Anne Ruggles Gere; Contributors; Index; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
Following on the groundbreaking contributions of Deborah Brandt's Literacy in American Lives-a literacy ethnography exploring how ordinary Americans have been affected by changes in literacy, public education, and structures of power-Literacy, Economy, and Power expands Brandt's vision, exploring the relevance of her theoretical framework as it relates to literacy practices in a variety of current and historical contexts, as well as in literacy's expanding and global future. Bringing together scholars from rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies, the book offers thirteen. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Text in English. |
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Composition (Language arts)
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Composition (Language arts) |
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Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Literacy -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Literacy programs -- United States.
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Literacy programs. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Christoph, Julie Nelson.
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Goldblatt, Eli.
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Graff, Nelson.
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Nowacek, Rebecca S.
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Trabold, Bryan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Duffy, John. Literacy, Economy, and Power : Writing and Research after ""Literacy in American Lives"". Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2013 9780809333028 |
| ISBN |
9780809333035 (electronic book) |
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0809333031 (electronic book) |
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9781306224215 (MyiLibrary) |
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1306224217 (MyiLibrary) |
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0809333023 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780809333028 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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