Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity

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Cambridge University Press, 2003 M05 8 - 217 pages
Literacy and Literacies is a new and engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a new 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 indepth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity.

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Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity
James Collins,Richard Blot
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Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity
James Collins,Richard Blot
Limited preview - 2003

About the author (2003)

James Collins is Professor of Anthropology and of Reading at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses (1998), as well as of book and journal articles.

Bibliographic information

TitleLiteracy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity
Issue 22 of Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
AuthorsJames Collins, Richard K. Blot
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2003
ISBN0521593565, 9780521593564
Length217 pages
  
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