Notes on Notes: Literacy in the Margins

Authors

  • Marnina Gonick

Abstract

This paper is an expose of the work of Vancouver based photographer Kyla Mallett's series entitled "Marginalia."  Through an analysis of the photographs of notes readers have made in the margins of library books, I suggest that marginalia tell us something about literacy's often hidden processes.  I argue, that these notes left behind by unknown readers may also tell us something about the self-fashioning of literate subjects.

Author Biography

Marnina Gonick

Marnina Gonick is Canada Research Chair in Gender at Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  She is the author of Between Femininities: Identity, Ambivalence and the Education of Girls, published by SUNY Press.  And co-author of Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change, published by Palgrave. 

 

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Published

2011-04-08

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2011): Journal of Curriculum Theorizing

Section

Engaging Texts

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