Pluriversal Literacies (eBook)

Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures

Damian Baca, Ellen Cushman, Romeo Garcia (Herausgeber)

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2024
396 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-8901-1 (ISBN)

Infos

<b>A Global Analysis of Sites, Practices, and Processes of Decolonial and Indigenous Meaning-Making </b>

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Decolonial projects can end up reinforcing dominant modes of thinking by shoehorning understandings of Indigenous and non-Western traditions within Eurocentric frameworks. The pluralization of literacies and the creation of so-called alternative rhetorics accepts that there is a totalizing reality of rhetoric and literacy. This volume seeks to decenter these theories and to engage Indigenous contexts on their own terms, starting with the very tools of representation. Language itself can disrupt normative structures and create pluriversal possibilities. The volume editors and contributors argue for epistemic change at the level of the language and media that people use to represent meaning. The range of topics covered includes American Indian and Indigenous representations, literacies, and rhetorics; critical revisionist historiography and comparative rhetorics; delinking colonial literacies of cartographic power and modernity; "e;northern"e; and "e;southern"e; hemispheric relations; and theorizations of/from oceanic border spaces.

Autor

<b>Damián Baca (Editor) </b><br> <b>Damián Baca</b> is associate professor of Mexican American studies at the University of Arizona. He is author of <i>Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing</i> and coeditor of <i>Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE</i>, <i>Rhetorics of Difference</i>, and <i>Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise</i>, winner of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award.<br><br><b>Romeo Garcia (Editor) </b><br> <b>Romeo García </b>is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric studies at the University of Utah. His research appears in <i>College Composition and Communication</i>, <i>Rhetoric Society Quarterly</i>, <i>Across the Disciplines</i>, and <i>Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture</i>. García is coeditor of <i>Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise</i><i>: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions</i>, winner of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award, and <i>Unsettling Archival Research</i>.<b></b><br><br><b>Ellen Cushman (Editor) </b><br> <b>Ellen Cushman</b> is Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability and professor of English at Northeastern University and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her work explores how people use literacy and language to endure and create change.<br><br>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American Indian • cartographic power • Comparative rhetorics • critical revisionist historiography • Decolonization • Indigenous • Indigenous cultures • Modernity • Multiple Literacies • non-Western history • oceanic border spaces • Rhetorics
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-8901-8 / 0822989018
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8901-1 / 9780822989011