John Trimbur

Gebundenes Buch

Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record

A Textual History of Asbestos Activism in South Africa

Beschreibung

This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic effects on their lives caused by the asbestos industry.

Autor

John Trimbur teaches rhetoric and writing studies at Emerson College, USA. His research interests include cultural studies of literacy, translingualism and the politics of language in South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation
• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781788926805
• ISBN-10: 1788926803
• Artikelnr.: 57391428