My name's not Susie : a life transformed by literacy / Sharon Jean Hamilton ; foreword by Janice Lauer.

Author
Hamilton, Sharon J. [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook, ©1995.
Description
xiii, 153 pages ; 24 cm

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    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 0867093617 ((hard))
    • 9780867093612 ((hard))
    LCCN
    95018077
    OCLC
    32467765
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