03369nam 2200649 a 450 991081903220332120200520144314.00-292-79825-310.7560/725218(CKB)111090425016210(OCoLC)191935103(CaPaEBR)ebrary10190648(SSID)ssj0000176714(PQKBManifestationID)11165316(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176714(PQKBWorkID)10206798(PQKB)10991761(MiAaPQ)EBC3443066(OCoLC)55890116(MdBmJHUP)muse1943(Au-PeEL)EBL3443066(CaPaEBR)ebr10190648(DE-B1597)588333(DE-B1597)9780292798250(EXLCZ)9911109042501621020001109d2001 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrImagining literacy rhizomes of knowledge in American culture and literature /Ramona Fernandez1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20011 online resource (237 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-72521-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction TO READ OR NOT -- One THE SEMIOSIS OF LITERACY -- Two WHOSE ENCYCLOPEDIA? -- Three READING TRICKSTER WRITING -- Four DISNEY’S LABYRINTH: EPCOT, CAPITAL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Five THE SMITHSONIAN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA: MUSEUM AS CANON -- Conclusion IMAGINING LITERACY IN A MIXED CULTURE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEXDefining the "common knowledge" a "literate" person should possess has provoked intense debate ever since the publication of E. D. Hirsch's controversial book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Yet the basic concept of "common knowledge," Ramona Fernandez argues, is a Eurocentric model ill-suited to a society composed of many distinct cultures and many local knowledges. In this book, Fernandez decodes the ideological assumptions that underlie prevailing models of cultural literacy as she offers new ways of imagining and modeling mixed cultural and non-print literacies. In particular, she challenges the biases inherent in the "encyclopedias" of knowledge promulgated by E. D. Hirsch and others, by Disney World's EPCOT Center, and by the Smithsonian Institution. In contrast to these, she places the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose works model a cultural literacy that weaves connections across many local knowledges and many ways of knowing.LiteracyUnited StatesEducational anthropologyUnited StatesCultureMulticultural educationUnited StatesLiteracyEducational anthropologyCulture.Multicultural education302.2/244Fernandez Ramona1947-1617270MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819032203321Imagining literacy3948370UNINA