Pluriversal Literacies : Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García, Romeo, 1987- editor.

Cushman, Ellen, 1967- editor.

Baca, Damián, 1975- editor.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Philosophy.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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.

Contents:

Introduction. Practicing Pluriversal Literacies / Ellen Cushman, Romeo García, Damión Baca

1. Winking at His Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts / Rocío Quispe-Agnoli

2. Gaining Indigenous Ground in a European Museum? Colonial Logics and Decolonial Possibilities at the Humboldt Forum / Lisa King

3. Decolonizing Black and Indigenous Dispossession: Interculturality, Transrhetoricity, and Otherwise Re-storying Race / Rachel C. Jackson

4. Competing Epistemologies, Contested Modernities: Hu Shi in Chinese Rhetorical Studies / Xiaoye You

5. Beyond a Native Clearing: Translanguaging and Decolonial Potential at the American Colonial Schoolhouse / Florianne Jimenez

6. When I Run, I'm Not "Half," I'm Diné: The Pluriverse in Connectedness of Movement / Kelsey Dayle John

7. The Language of Imitation: A Pedagogy of Representations / Resa Crane Bizzaro, Patrick Bizzaro

8. Cross-Border Collaborations for Peace: Writing from a Common Heart / Kate Vieira

9. Conflicts within the Global South and Southern Epistemologies: A South African Case Study of Language and Domestic Work / Anna Kajee-Marquez, Sinfree B. Makoni

10. Fulfilling Allah's Trust: Rhetorics of Amanah as a Foundation for Social Change / Tamara Issak, Lana Oweidat

11. Semicolonial Viscerality: Gharbzadegi and the Geopolitics of Sensing / Maryam Ahmadi

12. I is for Isla: (Pre/Ap)Positioning the Decolonial Rhetorics of Filipinos on Guåhan / Tabitha Espina

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822989011

0822989018