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.
"I want to communicate something of the humbling joy and vitality I experienced while reading the essays and studies assembled in this edited collection. The project invites readers to reconsider the tools we think with, the worlds they would have us build, and whom they'd have us become. In the service of livable futures, Pluriversal Literacies not only endorses a wide range of critical and creat
Elenore Long, Arizona State University
"Unique, energizing, and cross-disciplinary, Pluriversal Literacies delivers on its ambitious claims for something beyond 'alternative' rhetorics that recenter Western rhetoric in order to oppose it. What happens if we engage a decolonial and delinking analytic focused on 'pluriversal' possibilities instead? This wide-ranging collection offers bold examples of intersecting perspectives, practices,
