Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 11
FIGURES......Page 12
FOREWORD......Page 13
References......Page 16
PREFACE......Page 19
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 21
Note......Page 22
Puzzles and pluralities of literacy......Page 23
Plan of the book......Page 28
Introduction......Page 31
The origins of writing, the ideal of transcribing: a Native American case......Page 33
The literacy thesis......Page 37
Literacy, rationality, and social development......Page 39
Literacy and cognitive development......Page 45
A practice alternative to the literacy thesis......Page 51
Conclusion: intimations of textuality and power......Page 54
Introduction......Page 56
Heath......Page 58
Finnegan......Page 68
Street......Page 75
Influences of situated approaches......Page 83
Conclusion: implications of situated approaches......Page 87
Introduction......Page 89
The interplay of text and talk in early modern Europe......Page 90
Interlude: practice theory and modernity......Page 94
Literacy, nationalism, and education in the United States: the early national phase......Page 96
Literacy, nationalism, and education in the United States: the mature national phase......Page 105
Conclusion......Page 118
Introduction......Page 121
The salience of identity in the current era......Page 123
Language, literacy, and identity......Page 126
Heath......Page 128
Rose......Page 131
Gilyard......Page 135
Gender and identity: counter-cases......Page 138
Conclusion......Page 141
Introduction......Page 143
Literacy as requirement: legitimating the conquest......Page 145
The scriptural economy in Hispaniola, the Andes, and New Spain......Page 147
The authority of colonial writing......Page 148
The erasure of native writing......Page 150
Reading beyond the text: postcolonial responses......Page 161
Agency within and against a scriptural economy: invented writings and the crafting of hybrid selves......Page 171
Conclusion: identity, power, and poaching......Page 175
Introduction......Page 177
Prehistoric and fictive origins......Page 178
The Tolowa case: transformative origins......Page 179
“Picture writing” and archives......Page 184
“Picture writing” and civilization......Page 188
Ends, instrumentalities, and identities......Page 189
End as death: questioning decline......Page 190
Literacy as instrumentality: questioning technology......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 194
2 The literacy thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development, and self......Page 199
3 Situated approaches to the literacy debate......Page 200
4 Literacies and power in modern nation states......Page 201
5 Literacies and identity formation: American cases......Page 202
6 Colonial legacies and indigenous transformations......Page 203
7 Conclusion: literacy lessons – beginnings, ends, and implications......Page 207
REFERENCES......Page 209
INDEX......Page 230