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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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Series: | Literacies.
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Table of Contents:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; PREFACE; PART I: GRASSROOTS LITERACY; 1 INTRODUCTION: Grassroots literacy and literacy regimes; PART II: THE LIVES OF JULIEN; 2 THREE LIVES FOR MRS ARENS; 3 GENRES AND REPERTOIRES; 4 WRITING, REMEMBERING AND BEING; PART III: TSHIBUMBA THE HISTORIAN; 5 TSHIBUMBA: Artist, painter, historian; 6 THE AESTHETICS OF GRASSROOTS LITERACY; 7 SOURCES AS RESOURCES; 8 THE GRASS ROOTS HISTORIAN'S CRAFT; PART IV: JULIEN, TSHIBUMBA, AND BEYOND; 9 REFLECTIONS; NOTES AND REFERENCES; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.