Current research on literacy often conceives space as a container within which social practice
occurs. In sharp contrast this edited collection argues that literary practice and social
space are produced in relation to one another. Contributors to this collection consider how a
spacial analysis provides entirely new information for the interpretation of literary practice.
Traversing geography and literacy studies drawing on Bakhtin Deleuze and Guattari Lefebvre
Soja and a range of other theorists contributors analyze space literacy relations in diverse
settings including classrooms prisons streets institutional programs homes and the
popular media.
