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Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) Book

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.Read More

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    Developing a new synthesis of literacy studies, this book explores the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. James Collins and Richard Blot present a critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity.

  • 0521596610
  • 9780521596619
  • James Collins, Richard Blot
  • 8 May 2003
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 238
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