All texts position readers and serve some author’s interests
Evidence
From a critical theoretical perspective, literacy is viewed as having social, political, and historical meaning. With critical literacy, students are encouraged to “pay attention to what a particular text is doing to them, how it is positioning them, and whose interests are being served by how the text is written” (Leland & Harste, 2000, p. 3). Critical literacy questions power structures and the status quo. All texts are written from the perspective of the author. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 604
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘critical literacy’ as noticing how a text positions the reader and whose interests it serves.
- XREF: connects to: State texts mask the vested interests of their authors; Texts impose preferred readings that constrain audience interpretation.; Official documents reflect the vested interests of their authors (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Texts impose preferred readings that constrain audience interpretation.
#expands(0.92) - State texts mask the vested interests of their authors
#exemplifies(0.90) - Official documents reflect the vested interests of their authors
#exemplifies(0.90) - Texts are not completely open to interpretation but assert a preferred reading
#expands(0.88) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 758 - Muslim-authored novels are read as collective representative documents rather than individual explorations
#exemplifies(0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 510 - Free indirect discourse can lock a novel into one character’s worldview
#exemplifies(0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 104 - Reader positions determine what Indian English fiction can signify
#exemplifies(0.82) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1963