Literacy, Economy, and Power Writing and Research after ""Literacy in American Lives""

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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