Publications

Publication details [#39165]

Blommaert, Jan. 2004. Writing as a problem: African grassroots writing, economies of literacy, and globalization. Language in Society 33 (5) : 643–671.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | literacy | writing

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines a set of documents written by a Burundese asylum seeker in Belgium, that are instances of “grassroots writing”: they have considerable problems with “remembering", are typical text-artifacts of globalization processes and have a collective authorship.