reading this book by a woman who grew up in nigeria, a white child of missionary parents. a certain tonic, the familiarity of it, so absolutely different from that poisonwood book people always ask me about.
starting to think about this paper for the conference, the sort of striated literacy frames. which literacies matter. which literacies must be purged. no blunged. that new word last night from clay. to blunge? something about held in suspension...but not exactly...
literacy seems a certain kind of impossibility to discuss...always.
the bodily involvement in these literacies we acquire. when Jane complains about workng on her web page project, she talks about how difficult it was to see the screen...always, this sense that literate acts have bodily consequence.
shaping a body memory. what is the word for fragmented memory?
this sense that when C talks about the novel, she uses the words I would have for literacy. what possible shards might remain? in a literacy narrative?
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