
Literacy of the Other
Renarrating Humanity
Aparna Mishra Tarc(Author)
State University of New York Press
Published on 2. July 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-1-4384-5748-2 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the existential significance of literacy.
Winner of the 2017 American Educational Research Association's Division B Outstanding Book Award
Literary of the Other stages a bold psychoanalytic investigation into the existential significance of literacy. Featuring a dazzling array of novel artifacts and events, the book situates literacy in the internal fictive worlds of the self and other. This approach is designed to encourage teachers of language and literature to sustain reflexive thought in their practices of reading and writing as a means to gain insight into the psychical processes of literacy. With lucid and compelling prose, Aparna Mishra Tarc reminds us of the importance of fostering a meaningful practice of literacy in the construction of real and fictive stories by which to live well throughout our lives. Renarrating many versions of a shared humanity might develop in us all a sympathetic regard for the storied lives of others.
Winner of the 2017 American Educational Research Association's Division B Outstanding Book Award
Literary of the Other stages a bold psychoanalytic investigation into the existential significance of literacy. Featuring a dazzling array of novel artifacts and events, the book situates literacy in the internal fictive worlds of the self and other. This approach is designed to encourage teachers of language and literature to sustain reflexive thought in their practices of reading and writing as a means to gain insight into the psychical processes of literacy. With lucid and compelling prose, Aparna Mishra Tarc reminds us of the importance of fostering a meaningful practice of literacy in the construction of real and fictive stories by which to live well throughout our lives. Renarrating many versions of a shared humanity might develop in us all a sympathetic regard for the storied lives of others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-5748-2 (9781438457482)
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Person
Aparna Mishra Tarc is Associate Professor of Education at York University.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Literacy of the Other
1. Fictive Readings
2. Literary Stirrings: The Inner Life of Literacy
3. Projecting Humanity: Tarzan of the Apes Learns to Read and Write
4. Inside Reading: J. M. Coetzee's "The Problem of Evil"
5. Healing Language: Beloved, Literacy, and the "Other"
6. Before and After Words
Note
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Literacy of the Other
1. Fictive Readings
2. Literary Stirrings: The Inner Life of Literacy
3. Projecting Humanity: Tarzan of the Apes Learns to Read and Write
4. Inside Reading: J. M. Coetzee's "The Problem of Evil"
5. Healing Language: Beloved, Literacy, and the "Other"
6. Before and After Words
Note
Bibliography
Index