Literacy of the other : renarrating humanity / Aparna Mishra Tarc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mishra Tarc, Aparna, 1969- author.

Series:

SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education

SUNY series, transforming subjects : psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading, Psychology of.

Literacy--Psychological aspects.

Literacy.

Literacy--Study and teaching.

Humanism in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 161 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]

Summary:

Literacy of the Other stages a bold psychoanalytic investigation into the existential significance of literacy. Featuring a dazzling array of novel artifacts and events, the book situates literacy in the internal fictive worlds of the self and other. This approach is designed to encourage teachers of language and literature to sustain reflexive thought in their practices of reading and writing as a means to gain insight into the psychical processes of literacy. With lucid and compelling prose, Aparna Mishra Tarc reminds us of the importance of fostering a meaningful practice of literacy in the construction of real and fictive stories by which to live well throughout our lives. Renarrating many versions of a shared humanity might develop in us all a sympathetic regard for the storied lives of others. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : literacy of the other

Fictive readings

Literary stirrings : the inner life of literacy

Projecting humanity : Tarzan of the apes learns to read and write

Inside reading : J.M. Coetzee's "The problem of evil"

Healing language : beloved, literacy and the "other"

Before and after words.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438457475

1438457472

OCLC:

904713423