5. Fateful literacy: New meanings, old ideologies, and some unexpected consequences of Nepali love letter writing

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1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Renewing literacy studies 1
5. Part I. Literacy and power
6. 1. Globalised literacy education: Intercultural trade in textual and cultural practice 17
7. 2. To seem and to feel: Engaging cultural artefacts to "do" literacy 35
8. 3. Being a new capitalist mother 51
9. Part II. Local and global: Taking hold of literacy
10. 4. Habitus in children's multimodal text-making: A discussion 73
11. 5. Fateful literacy: New meanings, old ideologies, and some unexpected consequences of Nepali love letter writing 93
12. 6. Children's games as local semiotic play: An ethnographic account 117
13. Part III. Research tools: Conceptual resources for literacy study
14. 7. Learning in semiotic domains: A social and situated account 137
15. 8. Assembling "Skills for Life": Actor-network theory and the New Literacy Studies 151
16. Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space
17. 9. Elite or powerful literacies? Constructions of literacy in the novels of Charles Dickens and Mrs Gaskell 173
18. 10. Beyond "here's a culture, here's a literacy": Vision in Amerindian literacies 193
19. Index 215