Literacy, Economy, and Power: Writing and Research after "Literacy in American Lives"

Contents

v Contents Introduction 1 Part One. Looking Back at Literacy: What It Did to Us; What We Did with It 1. Elias Boudinot and the Cherokee Phoenix: The Sponsors of Literacy They Were and Were Not 13 Ellen Cushman 2. Testimony as a Sponsor of Literacy: Bernice Robinson and the South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Program’s Literacy Activism 30 Rhea Estelle Lathan 3. Beyond the Protestant Literacy Myth 45 Carol Mattingly 4. Writing the Life of Henry Obookiah: The Sponsorship of Literacy and Identity 61 Morris Young Part Two. Looking Now at Literacy: A Tool for Change? 5. Sponsoring Education for All: Revisiting the Sacred/ Secular Divide in Twenty-First-Century Zanzibar 79 Julie Nelson Christoph 6. Connecting Literacy to Sustainability: Revisiting Literacy as Involvement 97 Kim Donehower 7. Toward a Labor Economy of Literacy: Academic Frictions 111 Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu Contents vi 8. The Unintended Consequences of Sponsorship 127 Eli Goldblatt and David A. Jolliffe 9. Making Literacy Work: A “Phenomenal Woman” Negotiating Her Literacy Identity in and for an African American Women’s Club 136 Beverly J. Moss and Robyn Lyons-Robinson 10. Seeking Sponsors, Accumulating Literacies: Deborah Brandt and English Education 155 Michael W. Smith 11. Combining Phenomenological and Sociohistoric Frameworks for Studying Literate Practices: Some Implications of Deborah Brandt’s Methodological Trajectory 166 Paul Prior Part Three. Looking Forward at Literacy: The Global and Multimodal Future 12. Beyond Literate Lives: Collaboration, Literacy Narratives, Transnational Connections, and Digital Media 185 Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher Epilogue: Literacy Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies with Notes on the Place of Deborah Brandt 203 Harvey J. Graff Afterword 227 Anne Ruggles Gere Contributors 233 Index 237 LITERACY, ECONOMY, AND POWER ...