Literacy and Literacies by James Collins

Literacy and Literacies by James Collins

Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a 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 in-depth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity. Through their analysis of two domains - those of literacies and power, and of literacies and subjectivity - they challenge received assumptions about literacy, intellectual development and social progress and argue that neither 'universalist' nor 'particularist' accounts offer satisfactory approaches to the phenomenon. This is a sustained exploration of the domain of power in relation to literacy. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in anthropology, linguistics, literacy studies and history.

'Literacy and Literacies offers a coherent and critical review of the different areas of controversy in contemporary literacy studies … Literacy and Literacies offers an excellent overview of the existing literatures, theoretical discussions and case studiesThe book will prove an essential addition to courses on language and literacy in both linguistics, anthropology and other related fields.' Journal of Sociolinguistics

James Collins is Professor of Anthropology and of Reading at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies and Native American Responses (1998), as well as of book and journal articles. Richard Blot is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Program in Literacy Studies, Lehman College, City University of New York. He has published in a number of journals, including TESOL Quarterly, Anthropology and Education Quarterly and Latin American Anthropology Review.

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ISBN 13	9780521596619
ISBN 10	0521596610
Title	Literacy and Literacies
Author	James Collins
Series	Studies In The Social And Cultural Foundations Of Language
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2003-05-08
Number of pages	238
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