Pluriversal literacies : tools for perseverance and livable futures / edited by Romeo García, Ellen Cushman, and Damián Baca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García, Romeo, 1987- editor.

Cushman, Ellen, 1967- editor.

Baca, Damián, 1975- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Literacy--Philosophy.

Semiotics.

Geopolitics.

geopolitics.

Physical Description:

ix, 256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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; "northern" and "southern" hemispheric relations; and theorizations of/from oceanic border spaces" -- publisher's website.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0822947293

9780822947295

OCLC:

1287127280