Deborah Brandt brings up the idea of sponsors in her literature Sponsors of Literacy. She writes about how sponsors are one of the main reasons why people are able to acquire literacy. Brandt describes a sponsor as “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way” (556). Though Brandt says that it is “any” agent which is “local”, just how…
According to James Paul Gee, literacy in a “dominant secondary Discourse” brings “social goods” (8). In Success, Victims, and Prodigies: “Master” and “Little” Cultural narratives in the Literacy Narrative Genre, Kara Poe Alexander writes how the success narrative can also show that literacy can bring “social goods”. “It promotes the idea that anyone– no matter their social background– can move up in status, income, reputation, and self-esteem” (Alexander 610). These ways of moving up in life are different examples of social goods….
According to Deborah Brandt, literacy sponsors are “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy – and gain advantage by it in some way” (556). Sponsors are regularly defined as a person or organization that provides funds for a project or activity carried out by another. When applied to a literacy narrative standpoint, sponsors are the ones who support the author’s experience that they are going…
