Literacy and Power, Hilary Janks : book review

The title of Hilary Jank's book Literacy and Power is an intertextual nod to Norman Fairclough's groundbreaking Language and Power. It places literacy (and thus the classroom) rather than language at the centre, and goes to the heart of current debates about what is, and possibly always has been, a highly contested term. Janks says upfront that her book works against the dividing practices in the field, so this review will focus on how the book achieves this on several levels.