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Pluriversal Literacies

Pluriversal Literacies

Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures

A Global Analysis of Sites, Practices, and Processes of Decolonial and Indigenous Meaning-Making

What It Means to Be Literate

What It Means to Be Literate

A Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy after Aphasia

Offers a New Perspective on Developing More Accessible Research and Teaching Practices and Learning Spaces

Literacy as Conversation

Literacy as Conversation

Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities

A Hopeful Approach to the Problem of Literacy Among Communities in Need

The Labyrinths Of Literacy

The Labyrinths Of Literacy

Reflections On Literacy Past And Present

A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

Language, Rhythm, and Sound

Language, Rhythm, and Sound

Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century

Focuses on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Carribean. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls’ Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente cloth from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.

Traces Of A Stream

Traces Of A Stream

Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women

Traces of a Stream offers a unique scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women who formed a new class of women well positioned to use language with consequence, Royster uses interdisciplinary perspectives (literature, history, feminist studies, African American studies, psychology, art, sociology, economics) to present a well-textured rhetorical analysis of the literate practices of these women.

Winner of the 2000 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize

Practicing Writing

Practicing Writing

The Postwar Discourse of Freshman English

Thomas Masters examines a pivotal era—the years following arrival of former soldiers on college campuses thanks to the GI Bill—in the history of the most ubiquitous and most problematic course offered in America: freshman English.

Language Of Experience

Language Of Experience

Literate Practices And Social Change

Relying on Gestalt theory, this work describes the relationship between literacy and change in both personal and social situations. It presents historical and contemporary case studies, emphasizing the ways language interacts with perception.

Managing Literacy Mothering America

Managing Literacy Mothering America

Womens Narratives On Reading And Writing

Sarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters—the domestic literacy narrative—and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century.

Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006).

The Evolution of College English

The Evolution of College English

Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns

Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out “four corners” of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies their development with broader changes in the technologies and economies of literacy that have redefined what students write and read, which careers they enter, and how literature represents their experiences and aspirations.

Producing Good Citizens

Producing Good Citizens

Literacy Training in Anxious Times

Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon, looking specifically to the period just before World War I, up until the Great Depression. During this time, the United States witnessed a similar anxiety over the influx of immigrants, economic uncertainty, and global political tensions.Citing numerous literacy theorists, Wan analyzes the correlation of reading and writing skills to larger currents within American society. She shows how early literacy training coincided with the demand for laborers during the rise of mass manufacturing, while also providing an avenue to economic opportunity for immigrants.

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Writing against Racial Injury

Writing against Racial Injury

The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric

Bringing together language and literacy studies, Asian American history and rhetoric, and critical race theory, Hoang uses historiography and ethnography to explore the politics of Asian American language and literacy education: the growth of Asian American student organizations and self-sponsored writing; the ways language served as thinly veiled trope for race in the influential Lau v. Nichols; the inheritance of a rhetoric of injury on college campuses; and activist rhetorical strategies that rearticulate Asian American racial identity.

South Asian in the Mid-South

South Asian in the Mid-South

Migrations of Literacies

Winner, 2017 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award

Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into the South Asian community in Mid-South America to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding.

Resisting Brown

Resisting Brown

Race, Literacy, and Citizenship in the Heart of Virginia

Prince Edward County, Virginia as a microcosm of America’s struggle with race, literacy, and citizenship.

On the End of Privacy

On the End of Privacy

Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World

The Anxiety of Transparency in an Age of Electronic Innovation and Intrusion

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