"The blues playingest dog you ever heard of": (Re)positioning literacy through African American blues rhetoric

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-373

  Kynard, Carmen ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.43.4.3     Document Type: Review

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