Literacies : Reading, Writing, Interpretation

by Terence Brunk; Priscilla Perkins; Suzanne Diamond

• ISBN13: 9780393970432
• ISBN10: 0393970434
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(4)
Introduction	xv	(12)
Invitations to Read and Write	xxvii
The Readings	1	(658)
Maya Angelou
"Mary"	3	(8)
Gloria Anzaldua
Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers	11	(14)
Margaret Atwood
An End to Audience?	25	(16)
James Baldwin
Down at the Cross	41	(20)
Dean Barnlund
Communication in a Global Village	61	(18)
Robert Bellah et al.
Community Commitment, and Individuality	79	(12)
Bruno Bettelheim
The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank	91	(14)
Frank Black Elk
Observations on Marxism and Lakota Tradition	105	(16)
Howard Brody, M.D.
The Social Power of Expert Healers	121	(22)
Barbara Christian
Black Feminist Process: In the Midst of...	143	(12)
James Clifford
Incidents of Tourism in Chiapas & Yucatan	155	(14)
Jimmie Durham
Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years	169	(14)
Stuart Ewen
Chosen People	183	(18)
Ann Fienup-Riordan
Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them	201	(38)
Andrea R. Fishman
Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish	239	(14)
Barbara Garson
McDonald's--We Do It All for You	253	(20)
David Gilmore
Performative Excellence: Circum-Mediterranean	273	(26)
Shirley Brice Heath
Literate Traditions	299	(18)
Liliana Heker
The Stolen Party	317	(8)
bell hooks & Cornel West
Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s	325	(16)
Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman	341	(14)
Jonathan Kozol
Rachel and Her Children	355	(14)
Audre Lorde
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism	369	(12)
Alistair MacLeod
The Vastness of the Dark	381	(24)
Adrienne Rich
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying	405	(12)
Richard Rodriguez
Complexion	417	(22)
Renato Rosaldo
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage	439	(22)
Nawal el-Saadawi
Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab	461	(26)
Carol de Saint Victor
Go Slowly and You Arrive	487	(26)
Scott Russell Sanders
The Men We Carry in Our Minds	513	(8)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Anthropological Looking Glass	521	(28)
Robert Scholes
On Reading a Video Text	549	(8)
Victor Seidler
Language and Masculinity	557	(20)
Mary Lyndon Shanley
"Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom: A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction	577	(26)
Susan Sontag
AIDS and Its Metaphors	603	(14)
Amy Tan
The Language of Discretion	617	(12)
Alice Walker
Everyday Use	629	(12)
Jeffrey Weeks
Values in an Age of Uncertainty	641	(18)
Assignment Sequences	659	(22)
1. The Social Contexts of Literacy	660	(1)
Andrea R. Fishman
Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish
Shirley Brice Heath
Literate Traditions
Robert Scholes
On Reading a Video Text
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Anthropological Looking Glass
2. Writing Selves: Debating "Self-Expression"	661	(2)
Margaret Atwood
An End to Audience?
Barbara Christian
Black Feminist Process: In the Midst of...
Scott Russell Sanders
The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Renato Rosaldo
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
3. Power and Knowledge in Everyday Life	663	(1)
Howard Brody, M.D.
The Social Power of Expert Healers
Barbara Garson
McDonald's--We Do It All for You
Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
Liliana Heker
The Stolen Party
4. Readers, Writers, and "Audiences"	664	(2)
Barbara Christian
Black Feminist Process: In the Midst of...
Jimmie Durham
Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Anthropological Looking Glass
5. Community and Individual Agency	666	(1)
Robert Bellah et al.
Community, Commitment, and Individuality
James Baldwin
Down at the Cross
Jonathan Kozol
Rachel and Her Children
bell hooks
Cornel West
Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s
Barbara Garson
McDonald's--We Do It All for You
6. The Traveler's Gaze/Gazing on Travel	667	(2)
Carol de Saint Victor
Go Slowly and You Arrive
Robert Scholes
On Reading a Video Text
Richard Rodriguez
Complexion
James Clifford
Incidents of Tourism in Chiapas & Yucatan
Jeffrey Weeks
Values in an Age of Uncertainty
Alistair MacLeod
The Vastness of the Dark
Gloria Anzaldua
Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
7. Gender and "Truth"	669	(2)
Mary Lyndon Shanley
"Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom
Jeffrey Weeks
Values in an Age of Uncertainty
Victor Seidler
Language and Masculinity
Adrienne Rich
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Scott Russell Sanders
The Men We Carry in Our Minds
bell hooks
Cornel West
Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s
8. Interpreting "Work"	671	(2)
Stuart Ewen
Chosen People
Richard Rodriguez
Complexion
David Gilmore
Performative Excellence: Circum-Mediterranean
Mary Lyndon Shanley
"Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom
Bruno Bettelheim
The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank
Barbara Garson
McDonald's--We Do It All for You
Howard Brody, M.D.
The Social Power of Expert Healers
Barbara Christian
Black Feminist Process: In the Midst of...
9. Family in Context	673	(1)
Alistair MacLeod
The Vastness of the Dark
Adrienne Rich
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Bruno Bettelheim
The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank
Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
10. Thinking Critically about History: Using the Past in the Present	674	(2)
Robert Bellah et al.
Community, Commitment, and Individuality
Bruno Bettelheim
The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank
Jimmie Durham
Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years
Ann Fienup-Riordan
Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
11. "Private Worlds": Talking about Communication	676	(2)
Audre Lorde
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
Amy Tan
The Language of Discretion
Maya Angelou
"Mary"
Adrienne Rich
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
Dean Barnlund
Communication in a Global Village
Susan Sontag
AIDS and Its Metaphors
Frank Black Elk
Observations on Marxism and Lakota Tradition
12. Conserving Acts: Preserving Social Values	678	(3)
Ann Fienup-Riordan
Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
Andrea R. Fishman
Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish
Robert Bellah et al.
Community, Commitment, and Individuality
Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman
James Baldwin
Down at the Cross
Adrienne Rich
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Documenting Sources Using MLA or APA Style	681	(8)
Biographical Sketches	689	(12)
Acknowledgments	701