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8. ‘We can all sing, but we can’t all talk’

Literacy brokers and tsotsi gangstersin a Cape Town shantytown
© 1996 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 1996 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Preface 1
  4. Introduction 11
  5. Section 1: Literacies at work 31
  6. 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the firstdemocratic national elections in South Africa 33
  7. 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape 49
  8. 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory 65
  9. 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school 85
  10. Section 2: Mediating literacies 103
  11. 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newton, Easter Cape 105
  12. 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies 123
  13. 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South 141
  14. 8. ‘We can all sing, but we can’t all talk’ 157
  15. Section 3: Contextualising literacies: policy lessons 173
  16. 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity 177
  17. 10. “We are waiting/ this is our home’ 197
  18. 11. Taking literacy for a ride — reading and writing in the taxi industry 213
  19. 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula 235
  20. Afterword 257
  21. References 265
  22. Index 275
The Social Uses of Literacy
This chapter is in the book The Social Uses of Literacy
https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.4.12chi

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Preface 1
  4. Introduction 11
  5. Section 1: Literacies at work 31
  6. 1. Literacy, voter education and constructions of citizenship in the Western Cape during the firstdemocratic national elections in South Africa 33
  7. 2. Literacy, knowledge, gender and power in the workplace on three farms in the Western Cape 49
  8. 3. Literacy and communication in a Cape factory 65
  9. 4. Communicative practices of the service staff of a school 85
  10. Section 2: Mediating literacies 103
  11. 5. Literacy mediation and social identity in Newton, Easter Cape 105
  12. 6. Cultural brokers and bricoleurs of modern and traditional literacies 123
  13. 7. Literacy learning and local literacy practice in Bellville South 141
  14. 8. ‘We can all sing, but we can’t all talk’ 157
  15. Section 3: Contextualising literacies: policy lessons 173
  16. 9. Literacy, migrancy and disrupted domesticity 177
  17. 10. “We are waiting/ this is our home’ 197
  18. 11. Taking literacy for a ride — reading and writing in the taxi industry 213
  19. 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula 235
  20. Afterword 257
  21. References 265
  22. Index 275
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