Pluriversal Literacies by Romeo Garcia

Pluriversal Literacies by Romeo Garcia

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.

Damián Baca (Editor)
Damián Baca is associate professor of Mexican American studies at the University of Arizona. He is author of Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing and coeditor of Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, Rhetorics of Difference, and Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise, winner of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award.

Romeo Garcia (Editor)
Romeo García is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric studies at the University of Utah. His research appears in College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Across the Disciplines, and Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture. García is coeditor of Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions, winner of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award, and Unsettling Archival Research.

Ellen Cushman (Editor)
Ellen Cushman 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.

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ISBN 13	9780822947295
ISBN 10	0822947293
Title	Pluriversal Literacies
Author	Romeo Garcia
Series	Composition Literacy And Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published	2024-06-10
Number of pages	264
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