...These books are called Taste Salt. The name makes me remember a story my Mama told us. The zombie understands only his suffering. He has no power to break away. He can only work and work.... If the zombie gets a taste of salt, he will understand. He will open his true eyes and see that he has been made a zombie. And he will turn against his master. He will obey him no longer. He will make himself free ... Then one day I see why the books be called Taste Salt. Is because that is what being able to read and write is like. You understand things you didn't before."

--Frances Temple Taste of Salt

In much the same way Frances Temple asserts the importance of reading to help people wake up and resist their oppression, Michael Newman, in Teaching Defiance: Stories and Strategies for Activist Educators insists on the importance of stories in adult education to help people see they have choices in their lives--choices they can make individually and collectively in order to improve their lives and the society; and choices that challenge authority, disrupt the status quo, and even subvert entire political and economic...

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