Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement
by Flower, LindaEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2008-06-23
Publisher(s): Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Summary
"Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement explores the critical practice of intercultural inquiry and rhetorical problem-solving that encourages urban writers and college mentors alike to take literate action."--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
Linda Flower is a professor of rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University and the author, editor, or coeditor of eight books, including The Construction of Negotiated Meaning: A Social Cognitive Theory of Writing (SIU Press). The cofounder of the Community Literacy Center in Pittsburgh, Flower also has served as codirector of the Department of Education’s National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy at Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Prologue: The Rhetoric of Engagement | p. 1 |
| A Community/University Collaboration | p. 7 |
| What Is Community Literacy? | p. 9 |
| A Space for Dialogue across Difference | p. 9 |
| Some Available Versions of Community | p. 21 |
| A Community Called to Intercultural Public Inquiry | p. 30 |
| Taking Literate Action | p. 44 |
| Risk, Stress, and Respect | p. 45 |
| Meanings as Ideas in Action | p. 52 |
| Theoretical Frameworks and Working Theories | p. 73 |
| Images of Engagement in Composition Studies | p. 75 |
| Composition Studies: A Response to Social Concerns | p. 76 |
| Engagement through a Rhetoric of Personal and Public Performance | p. 83 |
| Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here? | p. 100 |
| Some Available Roles and Relationships | p. 101 |
| Borrowing Roles and Relationships from Academic Practice | p. 111 |
| Images of Empowerment | p. 123 |
| Scripts for Empowerment | p. 125 |
| A Working Theory of Empowerment | p. 137 |
| Rhetorical Tools in the Rhetoric of Making a Difference | p. 151 |
| Intercultural Inquiry and the Transformation of Service | p. 153 |
| Facing Some Contradictions in Community Outreach | p. 154 |
| From Contact and Contradiction to Transformed Understanding | p. 158 |
| Inquiry and Transformation | p. 168 |
| The Search for Situated Knowledge | p. 172 |
| The Dynamics of Public Inquiry | p. 174 |
| Constructive Conflict in Talking across Difference | p. 182 |
| Taking Rhetorical Agency | p. 188 |
| What Counts as Agency? | p. 189 |
| Recognizing Agency in Others | p. 198 |
| Rhetorical Agency in Community Literacy | p. 205 |
| Affirming a Contested Agency | p. 216 |
| Nurturing Rhetorical Agency in Everyday Life | p. 217 |
| Giving a Public Presence to the Agency of Others | p. 220 |
| Intercultural Inquiry: A Brief Guide | p. 230 |
| Writing a Multivoiced Inquiry | p. 230 |
| Some Significant Areas for Inquiry | p. 232 |
| Methods for Intercultural Inquiry | p. 236 |
| Notes | p. 243 |
| References | p. 261 |
| Index | p. 275 |
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