Pluriversal Literacies

Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures

Romeo Garcia, Ellen Cushman, Damián Baca, Romeo Garcia, Ellen Cushman, Damián Baca

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822989011
• Subtopic: Literacy
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Practicing Pluriversal Literacies
• 1. Winking at his Readers From the Gaps: Guamán Poma De Ayala’s Silent Texts
• 2. Gaining Indigenous Ground in a European Museum? Colonial Logics and Decolonial Possibilities at the Humboldt Forum
• 3. Decolonizing Black and Indigenous Dispossession: Interculturality, Transrhetoricity, and Otherwise Re-Storying Race
• 4. Competing Epistemologies, Contested Modernities: Hu Shi in Chinese Rhetorical Studies
• 5. Beyond a Native Clearing: Translanguaging And Decolonial Potential at the American Colonial Schoolhouse
• 6. When I Run, I’m Not “Half,” I’m Diné: The Pluriverse in Connectedness of Movement
• 7. The Language of Imitation: A Pedagogy of Representations
• 8. Cross-Border Collaborations for Peace: Writing From a Common Heart
• 9. Conflicts Within the Global South and Southern Epistemologies: A South African Case Study of Language and Domestic Work
• 10. Fulfilling Allah’s Trust: Rhetorics of Amanah as a Foundation for Social Change
• 11. Semicolonial Viscerality: Gharbzadegi and the Geopolitics of Sensing
• 12. I Is for Isla: (Pre/AP)Positioning the Decolonial Rhetorics of Filipinos on Guåhan
• 13. Lessons for Losing
• Contributors
• Index