Literacy and Literacies
Texts, Power, and Identity
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Part of Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
- Authors:
- James Collins, State University of New York, Albany
- Richard Blot, Lehman College, City University of New York
- Date Published: May 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521593564
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Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. Collins and Blot offer in-depth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity. Through their analysis of two domains - those of literacies and power, and of literacies and subjectivity - they challenge received assumptions about literacy, intellectual development and social progress and argue that neither 'universalist' nor 'particularist' accounts offer satisfactory approaches to the phenomenon. This is a sustained exploration of the domain of power in relation to literacy. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in anthropology, linguistics, literacy studies and history.
Read more- A detailed exploration of the domain of power in relation to literacy
- Extended and in-depth analysis and discussion of anthropological cases
- Offers a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories
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'Literacy and Literacies offers a coherent and critical review of the different areas of controversy in contemporary literacy studies … Literacy and Literacies offers an excellent overview of the existing literatures, theoretical discussions and case studies. The book will prove an essential addition to courses on language and literacy in both linguistics, anthropology and other related fields.' Journal of Sociolinguistics
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- Date Published: May 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521593564
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 158 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Foreword Brian V. Street
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: texts, power and identity
2. The literacy thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development and self
3. Situated approaches to the literacy debate
4. Literacies and power in modern nation states: Euro-American lessons
5. Literacies and identity formation: American cases
6. Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations
7. Conclusion: literacy lessons - beginnings, ends and implications
Notes
References
Index.
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