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The anguish of displacement : the politics of literacy in the letters of mountain families in Shenandoah National Park

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The anguish of displacement : the politics of literacy in the letters of mountain families in Shenandoah National Park / Katrina M. Powell.
Author
Powell, Katrina M., 1976-
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.

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xv, 212 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index.
Contents
Introduction : understanding history through literacy -- Literacy, status, and narrative representation -- Representation, advocacy, and identification -- Genre knowledge and assumptions about class and education -- Resistance, negotiation, and social action -- Social participation and resisting cultural codes -- Rhetorics of displacement and the politics of eminent domain.
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ITC 08-4388
ISBN
  • 9780813926285 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813926289 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007014966
OCLC
123485066
Author
Powell, Katrina M., 1976-
Title
The anguish of displacement : the politics of literacy in the letters of mountain families in Shenandoah National Park / Katrina M. Powell.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index.
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ITC 08-4388
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