The Right to literacy / edited by Andrea A. Lunsford, Helene Moglen, and James Slevin.

Papers originally presented at the Right to Literacy Conference sponsored by the Modern Language Association in 1988.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Andrea A. Lunsford, Helene Moglen, and James Slevin -- Public literacy : puzzlements of a high school watcher / Theodore R. Sizer -- Producing adult readers : 1930-50 / David Bartholomae -- Becoming literate : a lesson from the Amish / Andrea R. Fishman -- Time to write : resistance to literacy in a Maine fishing community / John S. Lofty -- Collaboration, collaborative communities, and Black folk culture / Keith D. Miller and Elizabeth A. Vander Lei -- Rural poverty and literacy in the Mississippi Delta : dilemmas, paradoxes, and conundrums / Anthony Petrosky -- Literacy and the politics of education / C.H. Knoblauch -- The English department and social class : resisting writing / James Thomas Zebroski.

"Knowledge is power" : the Black struggle for literarcy / Thomas Holt -- Perspectives on the intellectual tradition of Black women writers / Jacqueline Jones Royster -- Censorship and spiritual education / James Moffett -- Caliban in the composition classroom / Donald Rothman -- Censorship, identification, and the poetics of need / Deanne Bogdan -- On teaching convicts / Maurice Laurence, Jr. -- The rhetoric of empowerment in writing programs / Harriet Malinowitz -- Literacy and citizenship : resisting social issues / David Bleich -- Language, logic, and literacy / Keith Walters -- Literary and knowledge / Deborah Brandt -- The situation of literacy and cognition : what we can learn from the Uzbek experiment / Beth Daniell.

In praise of the local and transitory / Kathryn Thomas Flannery -- Bloomsday : doomsday book for literacy? / C. Jan Swearingen -- The ideology of literacy : a Bakhtinian perspective / Charles Schuster -- Toward a social-cognitive understanding of problematic reading and writing / Glynda Hull and Mike Rose -- Cross-age tutoring : the right to literacy / J. Elspeth Stuckey and Kenneth Alston -- Enacting critical literacy / John Clifford -- Adolescent vernacular writing : literacy reconsidered / Miriam P. Camitta -- The world, the text, and the reader / Paula M. Salvio -- Collaboration, resistance, and the teaching of writing / Suzanne Clark and Lise Ede -- The fourth vision : literate language at work / Shirley Brice Heath.