LITERACIES
READING, WRITING,
INTERPRETATION
TERENCE BRUNK
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
SUZANNE DIAMOND
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
PRISCILLA PERKINS
ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY
KEN SMITH
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND
CONTENTS
Preface I xi
Introduction
Invitations
I xv
to Read and Write I xxvii
The Readings I 1
Maya Angelou
"Mary" / 3
Gloria Anzaldua
Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers / 11
Margaret Atwood
An End to Audience? / 25
James Baldwin
Down at the Cross / 41
Dean Barnlund
Communication in a Global Village / 61
Robert Bellah et al.
Community Commitment, and Individuality / 79
vi / Contents
Bruno Bettelheim
The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank / 91
Frank Black Elk
Observations on Marxism and Lakota Tradition / 105
Howard Brody, M.D.
The Social Power of Expert Healers / 121
Barbara Christian
B l a c k . F e m i n i s t P r o c e s s : I n t h e M i d s t o f . . . / 143
James Clifford
Incidents of Tourism in Chiapas & Yucatan / 155
Jimmie Durham
Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years / 169
Stuart Ewen
Chosen People / 183
Ann Fienup-Riordan
Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them / 201
Andrea R. Fishman
Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish / 239
Barbara Garson
McDonald's-We Do It All for You / 253
David Gilmore
Performative Excellence: Circum-Mediterranean / 273
Shirley Brice Heath
-Literate Traditions / 299
Liliana Heker
The Stolen Party / 317
bell hooks & Cornel West
Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s / 325
Maxine Hong Kingston
No Name Woman / 341
Jonathan Kozol
Rachel and Her Children / 355
Audre Lorde
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism / 369
Contents / vii
Alistair MacLeod
The Vastness of the Dark / 381
Adrienne-Rich
Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying / 405
Richard Rodriguez
Complexion / 417
Renato Rosaldo
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage / 439
Nawal el-Saadawi
Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab / 461
Carol de Saint Victor
Go Slowly and You Arrive / 487
Scott Russell Sanders
The Men We Carry in Our Minds / 513
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Anthropological Looking Glass / 521
Robert Scholes
On Reading a Video Text / 549
Victor Seidler
Language and Masculinity / 557
Mary Lyndon Shanley
'Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom:
A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction / 577
Susan Sontag
AIDS and Its Metaphors / 603
Amy Tan
The Language of Discretion / 617
Alice Walker
Everyday Use / 629
Jeffrey Weeks
Values in an Age of Uncertainty / 641
viii / Contents
Assignment
Sequences
I 659
1. The Social Contexts of Literacy / 660
Andrea R. Fishman, Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the
Amish
Shirley Brice Heath, Literate Traditions
Robert Scholes, On Reading a Video Text
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Anthropological Looking Glass
2. Writing Selves: Debating "Self-Expression" / 661
Margaret Atwood, An End to Audience?
Barbara Christian, Black Feminist Process: In the Midst o f . . .
Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Renato Rosaldo, Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
3. Power and Knowledge in Everyday Life / 663
Howard Brody, M.D., The Social Power of Expert Healers
Barbara Garson, McDonald's—We Do It All for You
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
Liliana Heker, The Stolen Party
4. Readers, Writers, and "Audiences" / 664
Barbara Christian, Black Feminist Process: In the Midst o f . . .
Jimmie Durham, Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Anthropological Looking Glass
5. Community and Individual Agency / 666
-Robert Bellah et al., Community, Commitment, and
Individuality
James Baldwin, Down at the Cross
Jonathan Kozol, Rachel and Her Children
bell hooks & Cornel West, Black Women and Men: Partnership
in the 1990s
Barbara Garson, McDonald's—We Do It All for You
6. The Traveler's Gaze/Gazing on Travel / 667
Carol de Saint Victor, Go Slowly and You Arrive
Robert Scholes, On Reading a Video Text
Richard Rodriguez, Complexion
James Clifford, Incidents of Tourism in Chiapas & Yucatan
Contents / ix
Jeffrey Weeks, Values in an Age of Uncertainty
Alistair MacLeod, The Vastness of the Dark
Gloria Anzaldiia, Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World
Women Writers
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
7. Gender and "Truth" / 669
Mary Lyndon Shanley, "Surrogate Mothering" and Women's
Freedom
Jeffrey Weeks, Values in an Age of Uncertainty
Victor Seidler, Language and Masculinity
Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds
bell hooks & Cornel West, Black Women and Men: Partnership
in the 1990s
8. Interpreting "Work" / 671
Stuart Ewen, Chosen People
Richard Rodriguez, Complexion
David Gilmore, Performative Excellence: CircumMediterranean
Mary Lyndon Shanley, "Surrogate Mothering" and Women's
Freedom
Bruno Bettelheim, The Ignored^Lesson of Anne Frank
Barbara Garson, McDonald's—We Do It All for You
Howard Brody, M.D., The Social Power of Expert Healers
Barbara Christian, Black Feminist Process: In the Midst o f . . .
9. Family in Context / 673
Alistair MacLeod, The Vastness of the Dark
Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Bruno Bettelheim, The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
10. Thinking Critically about History: Using the Past in the Present / 674
Robert Bellah et al., Community, Commitment, and
Individuality
Bruno Bettelheim, The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank
x / Contents
Jimmie Durham, Those Dead Guys for a Hundred Years
Ann Fienup-Riordan, Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
11. "Private Worlds": Talking about Communication / 676
Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
Amy Tan, The Language of Discretion
Maya Angelou, "Mary"
Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
Dean Barnlund, Communication in a Global Village
Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors
Frank Black Elk, Observations on Marxism and Lakota
Tradition
12. Conserving Acts: Preserving Social Values / 678
Ann Fienup-Riordan, Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
Andrea R. Fishman, Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the
Amish
Robert Bellah et al., Community, Commitment, and
Individuality
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
James Baldwin, Down at the Cross
Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Documenting Sources Using MLA or APA Style I 681
biographical Sketches I 689
Acknowledgments I 701
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