Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited - Rilegato

Pahl, Kate

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ISBN 10: 0567469611 ISBN 13: 9780567469618

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2014

Riassunto

What is a 'contemporary' understanding of literacy practices? How can 'literacy' be explained and situated? This book addresses literacy practices research, understanding it as both material and spatial, based in homes and communities, as well as in formal educational settings. It addresses a need to update the work done on theoretical literacy models, with the last major paradigms such as critical literacies and multiliteracies developed a decade ago.

Kate Pahl draws on case studies to highlight experiences alternate from the traditional representations of literacy. She argues that the affordances of home and familiar spaces offer fertile ground for meaning-making. These resultant literacies are multimodal and linked to space, place and community. An important evaluative resource, this book details a range of methodologies for further researching literacy, describing ethnographic, visual, participatory and ecological approaches, together with connective ethnographies.

This volume will appeal to academics and professions in literacy studies and language and education.

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When the questing American hero, having lit out for the territories, runs out of space and discovers that there is no outside, nothing exterior to the road-movie that is contemporary Americawhat happens then?  Time changes; the self mutates; and the novel approaches a threshold between the literary mode of postmodernism and whatever lies ahead.  This is what Hiraku Fujii tells us through his series of brilliant and revelatory readings of American novels since the late 80s.  Not for the first time, it has taken an outsider to show Americans where to look and what to look for in their own imaginative literature.  These novelsby Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, William Vollmann, Steve Erickson, Annie Proulx and otherswill never look the same again. --Brian McHale, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University, USA, and author of Postmodernist Fiction and Constructing Postmodernism

Hikaru Fujiis Outside, America The Temporal Turn in Contemporary American Fiction is judicious, informed, perspicacious, and eye-opening.  Meriting attention from both academics and the larger community of readers who value and appreciate illuminating criticism, it is a valuable contribution to our understanding of contemporary American fictions achievements and prospects. --David Cowart, Lousie Fry Scudder Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA, and author of Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language and Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History

A lively and gracefully written piece of work that pokes holes in the walls of Fortress America by examining an A-list of recent American writers and their works. Fujii shows that, only when those walls are transformed into membranes, and mutation becomes possible, can the recovery of individual freedoms be achieved. --Ted Goossen, Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, York University, Toronto, Canada

L'autore:

Kate Pahl is Professor in Literacies in Education at the University of Sheffield, UK.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0567469611
• ISBN 13: 9780567469618
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208