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My name's not Susie : a life transformed by literacy / Sharon Jean Hamilton ; foreword by Janice Lauer.
Author
Hamilton, Sharon J.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, ©1995.
Description
xiii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
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PE64.H36 A3 1995
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English teachers
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Indiana
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Indianapolis
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Biography
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Children with social disabilities
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Education
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Canada
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Case studies
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Children
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Books and reading
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Canada
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Literacy
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Hamilton, Sharon J.
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Biographies
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collective biographies
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Summary note
By age three, Karen Agnes Fleming had already been neglected by her mother and made a ward of the court; had been in eighteen foster homes where she was given a series of new names; had experienced physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; and had been labeled disobedient, uneducable, and a social misfit.
At three and a half, Karen was adopted, her name was changed to Sharon Jean Hamilton, and she started on a long, hard road toward dispelling those early labels. On that road, literacy was the key to transforming her life. She discovered possible worlds - alternatives to her own experiences - by reading about them, moving from L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables to Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. She discovered insights into her own world by writing about it.
Now in her fifties with a Ph. D. in language and literature from London University, Sharon Jean Hamilton is an English professor. The catalyst for writing My Name's Not Susie was her own classroom. As she observed her nontraditional university students struggling to improve their lives through a literacy-based liberal art education, she was inspired to share her own story.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]).
Contents
Assaulting the inarticulate : Winnipeg, 1944
Orphans belong in orphanages
Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever
It's a good thing you don't wear glasses
Lying in the bed I made : the '60s passed me by
Evil woman? Bad mother? Single parent!
Escaping the epithets
You judge a system by those it fails
To London! To London! (But not to visit the Queen)
Picking up the hyphen
Oh, to be in Bloomsbury!
The Lucky one
Through the Haweshole to the professoriate : I'll never be Susie again.
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ISBN
0867093617 ((hard))
9780867093612 ((hard))
LCCN
95018077
OCLC
32467765
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