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Imagining Literacy: Rhizomes of Knowledge in American Culture and Literature

Autor Ramona Fernandez
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2001
Defining the "common knowledge" a "literate" person should possess has provoked intense debate ever since the publication of E. D. Hirsch's controversial book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Yet the basic concept of "common knowledge," Ramona Fernandez argues, is a Eurocentric model ill-suited to a society composed of many distinct cultures and many local knowledges.
In this book, Fernandez decodes the ideological assumptions that underlie prevailing models of cultural literacy as she offers new ways of imagining and modeling mixed cultural and non-print literacies. In particular, she challenges the biases inherent in the "encyclopedias" of knowledge promulgated by E. D. Hirsch and others, by Disney World's EPCOT Center, and by the Smithsonian Institution. In contrast to these, she places the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose works model a cultural literacy that weaves connections across many local knowledges and many ways of knowing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292725225
ISBN-10: 0292725221
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Ramona Fernandez is Associate Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University.

Cuprins

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. To Read or Not
  • Chapter 1. The Semiosis of Literacy
  • Chapter 2. Whose Encyclopedia?
  • Chapter 3. Reading Trickster Writing
  • Chapter 4. Disney's Labyrinth: EPCOT, Capital of the Twenty-first Century
  • Chapter 5. The Smithsonian's Encyclopedia: Museum as Canon
  • Conclusion. Imagining Literacy in a Mixed Culture
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

Descriere

An examination of the biases inherent in the idea of "cultural literacy".