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The social uses of literacy : theory and practice in contemporary South Africa / edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mignonne Breier ; preface by Brian V. Street.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in written language and literacy ; v. 4.Publisher: Bertsham, South Africa : Philadelphia : Sached Books ; J. Benjamins, [1996]Description: vi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1556193203
  • 9781556193200
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.22440968
LOC classification:
  • LC158.S6 S63 1996
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the first democratic national elections in South Africa -- Ch. 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape -- Ch. 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory -- Ch. 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school -- Ch. 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newtown, Eastern Cape -- Ch. 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: land struggles in Namaqualand's Coloured reserves -- Ch. 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South -- Ch. 8. 'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': literacy brokers and tsotsi gangsters in a Cape Town shantytown -- Ch. 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing -- Ch. 10. 'We are waiting/this is our home': literacy and the search for resources in the rural Eastern Cape -- Ch. 11. Taking literacy for a ride - reading and writing in the taxi industry -- Ch. 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula -- Afterword -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the first democratic national elections in South Africa -- Ch. 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape -- Ch. 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory -- Ch. 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school -- Ch. 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newtown, Eastern Cape -- Ch. 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies: land struggles in Namaqualand's Coloured reserves -- Ch. 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South -- Ch. 8. 'We can all sing, but we can't all talk': literacy brokers and tsotsi gangsters in a Cape Town shantytown -- Ch. 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity: Khayelitshan ways of knowing -- Ch. 10. 'We are waiting/this is our home': literacy and the search for resources in the rural Eastern Cape -- Ch. 11. Taking literacy for a ride - reading and writing in the taxi industry -- Ch. 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

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