Melanie N. Burdick

Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women

Sentences and Sponsors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book depicts results from narrative research involving four formerly incarcerated women and how they used literacy experiences to reconfigure their identities, overcome stigma, and gain control over their lives. The author discusses issues including literacy and motherhood, prison libraries, and transitions from prison to college classrooms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9781793615251
• ISBN-10: 179361525X
• Artikelnr.: 67214555

Autorenporträt

By Melanie N. Burdick

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I
Chapter 1Stories and Sponsors: Narrative Inquiry and Literacy Sponsorship
of Formerly Incarcerated Women
Chapter 2Literacies of Transitioning, Power, and Owning the Story
Chapter 3"Because Our World is Very Small": Prison Libraries and Librarians
Chapter 4Mothering Through Literate Acts: Facebook, Texts, and the
"Happiest Thing Ever"
Chapter 5Three Dimensional Landscapes of Formerly Incarcerated Women's
Literacy Narratives
Part II
Chapter 6 Listening to Diane: One Woman's Prison to School Pipeline
Chapter 7 Narrating and Owning a College Student Identity
Chapter 8 From Finding an Academic Home to "Feeling Untethered"
Chapter 9 Opening the Gates: Narratives from Diane's Professors
Chapter 10 Seeing Through the Sentences and Into the Stories
Bibliography
About the Author