Elenore Long

Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics


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href="#ulink_1aadaa74-98c1-5120-882f-838fde515eb7">Distinctive Features: Dramatic and Spontaneous

       The Impromptu Theater in Context: Location, Power, and the Integrity of Community Life

       Tenor of the Discourse: Edgy and Competitive, Curbed by Play

       Performative Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: Practice, Modeling, and Feedback

       Implications

       5 The Cultural Womb and the Garden: Local Publics That Depend on Institutions to Sponsor Them

       A Cultural Womb: The Local Public in Brandt’s Literacy in American Lives

       Distinctive Features: Nurtures and Prepares

       The Cultural Womb in Context: Location and Cultural Agency

       Tenor of the Discourse: Resourceful

       Interpretative Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: Inspiration, Instruction, and Transformation

       Implications

       A Garden: The Local Public in Heller’s Until We Are Strong Together

       Distinctive Features: Nurtures and Prepares

       The Garden in Context: Location, Agency, and Maturation

       Tenor of the Discourse: Literary Uplift

       Belletristic Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: Precision at the Point of Utterance

       Implications

       6 The Link and Gate: Local Publics That Intersect with Public Institutions

       A Link: The Local Public Sphere in Barton and Hamilton’s Local Literacies

       Distinctive Features: Linking Networks Across Domains

       The Link in Context: Location, Bottom-Up Initiative, and Agency

       Tenor of the Discourse: Hybrid—a Mix of the Formal and the Everyday

       Mobilizing Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: Adapting and Retooling

       Implications

       A Gate along a Fenceline: The Local Public in Cushman’s The Struggle and the Tools

       Distinctive Features: Access, Space, and Conflict

       The Gate in Context: Location and Linguistic Agency

       Tenor of the Discourse: Dueling Dualities

       Institutional Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: Evaluating Acquired Literacies

       Transferred to New Contexts

       Implications

       7 The Community-Organizing Effort and the Community Think Tank: Local Publics Forged in Partnership with Formal Institutions

       A Community-Organizing Effort: The Local Public in Goldblatt’s “Alinsky’s Reveille: A Community-Organizing Model for Neighborhood-Based Literacy Projects”

       Distinctive Features: Complexity and Pleasure

       The Community-Organizing Effort in Context: Location and Legacy

       Tenor of the Discourse: Bite Tempered by Sweetness

       Consensus-Building Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: Transforming Problems into Issues for Action

       Implications

       The Community Think Tank: The Local Public Sphere in Flower’s “Intercultural Knowledge Building: The Literate Action of a Community Think Tank”

       Distinctive Features: Diversity, Conflict, and Tools

       The Community Think Tank in Context: Location and Legacy

       Tenor of the Discourse: Prophetic—Principled and Inventive

       Design and Inquiry-Driven Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: The Construction of Negotiated Meaning

       Implications

       8 The Shadow System: A Local Public that Defies Formal Institutions

       Distinctive Features: Mimics and Shelters Difference

       The Shadow System in Context: Location and Cultural Imaginary

       Tenor the Discourse: Threatening and Hyperbolic

       Tactical Literacies

       Rhetorical Invention: Cultural Appropriation

       Implications

       9 Pedagogical Practices

       Overview

       Interpretative Pedagogies

       Institutional Pedagogies

       Tactical Pedagogies

       Inquiry-Driven Pedagogies

       Materialist Rhetoric: Realizing Practical Outcomes through Consensus

       Intercultural Inquiry: Restructuring Deliberative Dialogues around Difference

       Performative Pedagogies

       Conclusion

       10 Glossary

       11 Annotated Bibliography

       Notes

       Works Cited

       About the Author

       Index

      Preface

      Charles Bazerman

      Rhetoric, as a discipline, was born in the world to serve worldly needs. Typically these were the needs of power, exercised by the powerful—in court, parliament, political office, and the pulpit. The powerful could afford to pay rhetoricians for advice and to speak on their behalf. The wealthy could hire