Grassroots Literacy: Writing, Identity and Voice in Central Africa

by Jan Blommaert

Book Overview

What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between 'grassroots' literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and 'elite' literacies.

Displaced from their original context to elite literacy environments in the form of letters, police declarations and pieces of creative writing, 'grassroots' literacies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415426308
• ISBN13: 9780415426305
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"