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Tables of Contents for Literacy Matters
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Victor Villanueva
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Abby's Lament: Does Literacy Matter?
1
19
English Education and the Violence of Literacy
4
4
Reexamining Literacy as a Local Act
8
4
Literacy and Change
12
3
Literacy and Individual Possibility in a Capitalist Economy
15
5
Literacy in Our Lives: Contradiction and Possibility
20
35
Mixed Messages: Literacy and Cultural Context
23
5
The Misleading ``Simplicity'' of Literacy
28
4
Literacy and Individuality
32
11
The Ambiguity of Literacy
43
9
Writing and Reading, Contradiction and Possibility
52
3
Literacy, Discourse, and the Postmodern Subject: Individuals and Local Acts of Writing and Reading
55
34
The Specificity of Literacy
59
6
Understanding the Writer in Written Discourse
65
7
The Poststructuralist Challenge to the Writer
72
4
Understanding the Writer as Subject
76
7
Individual Agency and Local Literacies
83
6
Writing Roles for Ourselves: Local Literacies and Students' Lives
89
38
Celina
93
18
Larry
111
11
Personal Agency and Political Existence
122
5
Technology, Subjectivity, and Local Literacies
127
30
Technologies, Literacies, and Identities
135
12
New Technologies, Changing Selves
147
10
``A Wider Project of Possibility and Empowerment'': Teaching Literacy as a Local Act
157
32
Literacy Instruction and Students' Lives
161
17
Teaching the Ambivalence of Literacy: The Personal and the Political
178
6
The Uncertain Possibilities for Change
184
5
Postscript: Literacy and Pedagogies of Hope
189
4
Notes
193
6
References
199
8
Index
207
8
About the Author
215