Offering a comparative analysis of "community-literacy studies,"
COMMUNITY LITERACY AND THE RHETORIC OF LOCAL PUBLICS traces common
values in diverse accounts of "ordinary people going public."
Elenore Long offers a five-point theoretical framework. Used to
review major community-literacy projects that have emerged in
recent years, this local public framework uncovers profound
differences, with significant consequence, within five formative
perspectives: 1) the guiding metaphor behind such projects; 2) the
context that defines a "local" public, shaping what is an
effective, even possible performance, 3) the tenor and affective
register of the discourse; 4) the literate practices that shape the
discourse; and, most signficantly, 5) the nature of rhetorical
invention or the generative process by which people in these
accounts respond to exigencies, such as getting around gatekeepers,
affirming identities, and speaking out with others across
difference. COMMUNITY LITERACY AND THE RHETORIC OF LOCAL PUBLICS
also examines pedagogies that educators can use to help students to
go public in the course of their rhetorical education at college.
the concluding chapter adapts local-public literacies to college
curricula and examines how these literate moves elicit different
kinds of engagement from students and require different kinds of
scaffolding from teachers and community educators. A glossary and
annotated bibliography provide the basis for further inquiry and
research. ABOUT THE AUTHOR After completing a postdoctoral
fellowship through Pittsburgh's Community Literacy Center and
Carnegie Mellon University, Elenore Long continued to direct
community-literacy initiatives with Wayne Peck and Joyce Baskins.
With Linda Flower and Lorraine Higgins, she published LEARNING TO
RIVAL: A LITERATE PRACTICE FOR INTERCULTURAL INQUIRy. They recently
published a fifteen-year retrospective for the COMMUNITY LITERACY
JOURNAL. She currently directs the composition program and Writers'
Center at Eastern Washington University. ADVANCE PRAISE . . .
"COMMUNITY LITERACY AND THE RHETORIC OF LOCAL PUBLICS is the
perfect entry to the exuberant practice of literacy in community.
It brings contemporary research to life-in people, stories, and
purposes. And it documents the amazingly diverse ways ordinary
people go public. Moreover, Elenore Long's imaginative theoretical
framework lets us understand and critically compare alternative
images of local public life-from the literate worlds of church
women, writing groups, and street gangs to the performances of
community organizing, street theater, and local think tanks. Long's
analytical and profoundly rhetorical insight is to compare
community literacies in terms of their framing metaphors,
privileged practices, and processes of rhetorical invention. And
that is perhaps what makes the final chapter such a pedagogical
powerhouse-a brilliantly critical and concrete guide to supporting
our students and ourselves in local literate action." -Linda
Flower, Carnegie Mellon "Elenore Long's COMMUNITY LITERACY AND THE
RHETORIC OF LOCAL PUBLICS begins to articulate a history for
community literacy studies, and such a history is essential for
helping us figure out where we are going with this area of inquiry.
Long provides a new set of tools as well, and her local publics
framework, in particular, will prove valuable to researchers and
teachers alike." -Jeff Grabill
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