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Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement

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ISBN-10: 0809328526

ISBN-13: 9780809328529

Edition: 2008

Authors: Linda Flower

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Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagementexplores the critical practice of intercultural inquiry and rhetorical problem-solving that encourages urban writers and college mentors alike to take literate action. Author Linda Flower documents an innovative experiment in community literacy, the Community Literacy Center in Pittsburgh, and posits a powerful and distinctively rhetorical model of community engagement and pedagogy for both marginalized and privileged writers and speakers. In addition, she articulates a theory of local publics and explores the transformative potential of alternative discourses and counter-public performances. nbsp; In presenting a comprehensive…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Rhetoric of Engagement
A Community/University Collaboration
What Is Community Literacy?
A Space for Dialogue across Difference
Some Available Versions of Community
A Community Called to Intercultural Public Inquiry
Taking Literate Action
Risk, Stress, and Respect
Meanings as Ideas in Action
Theoretical Frameworks and Working Theories
Images of Engagement in Composition Studies
Composition Studies: A Response to Social Concerns
Engagement through a Rhetoric of Personal and Public Performance
Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?
Some Available Roles and Relationships
Borrowing Roles and Relationships from Academic Practice
Images of Empowerment
Scripts for Empowerment
A Working Theory of Empowerment
Rhetorical Tools in the Rhetoric of Making a Difference
Intercultural Inquiry and the Transformation of Service
Facing Some Contradictions in Community Outreach
From Contact and Contradiction to Transformed Understanding
Inquiry and Transformation
The Search for Situated Knowledge
The Dynamics of Public Inquiry
Constructive Conflict in Talking across Difference
Taking Rhetorical Agency
What Counts as Agency?
Recognizing Agency in Others
Rhetorical Agency in Community Literacy
Affirming a Contested Agency
Nurturing Rhetorical Agency in Everyday Life
Giving a Public Presence to the Agency of Others
Intercultural Inquiry: A Brief Guide
Writing a Multivoiced Inquiry
Some Significant Areas for Inquiry
Methods for Intercultural Inquiry
Notes
References
Index