What is community literacy? -- Taking literate action -- Images of engagement in composition studies -- Who am I? What am I doing here? -- Images of empowerment -- Intercultural inquiry and the transformation of service -- The search for situated knowledge -- Taking rhetorical agency -- Affirming a contested agency -- Intercultural inquiry : a brief guide
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. 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 transfo
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index