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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826630403321

Autore

Goldblatt Eli

Titolo

Writing home [[electronic resource] ] : a literacy autobiography / / Eli Goldblatt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale ; ; Edwardsville, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-88172-0

9786613723031

0-8093-3086-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Classificazione

LAN010000BIO019000LAN005000BIO026000

Disciplina

302.2/244

Soggetti

Literacy - Social aspects - United States

Education - Biographical methods

College teachers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Garret to Tree House; 1. Tour of Duty; 2. The Right to Mourn; 3. Into the Daedalean Dreamscape; 4. Following Williams; 5. Dry Creek Road; Gallery of Illustrations; 6. White Coat; 7. Entering Philadelphia; 8. Beyond the Fathers; 9. Viajeros, Extranjeros; 10. High Five at Second Base; Bibliography; Author Biography; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In  this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares  the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the first thirty years  of his life-in the classroom but mostly outside it. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography traces  Goldblatt's search for home and his growing recognition that only  through his writing life can he fully contextualize the world he  inhabits.    Goldblatt connects his educational journey as a poet and a  teacher to his conception of literacy, and assesses his intellectual,  emotional, and political develop