Grassroots literacy [electronic resource] : writing, identity and voice in central Africa / Jan Blommaert.

The ease with which people and messages flow around world poses significant questions with regards to literacy and its mobility and inequality in the age of globalization. This book considers how 'grassroots' literacy in the Third World develops outside the literacy-saturated environments...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Blommaert, Jan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Literacies.
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Summary:The ease with which people and messages flow around world poses significant questions with regards to literacy and its mobility and inequality in the age of globalization. This book considers how 'grassroots' literacy in the Third World develops outside the literacy-saturated environments of the developed world.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps, facsimiles.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
ISBN:0203895487
9780203895481