Enacting Adolescent Literacies Across Communities
Subtitle: Latino/A Scribes and Their Rites
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781498536448
Subjects: Language arts; Bilingualism
Description: This book analyzes Latino/a adolescents' engagement with the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and understand literary traditions today reveals their own interests in democracy, equity, and opportunity. Moreover, the rites they perform often recover buried histories, mirrors, and stories similar to the pre-Columbian scribes whose intellectual legacy is relevant in the twenty-first century. R. Joseph Rodríguez illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning and enact literacies with diverse audiences in civic and schooling communities.