College English Jan 2016

Translingual and Decolonial Approaches to Meaning Making

Ellen Cushman Universidad del Noreste

Abstract

Emancipatory projects that have sought to change paradigms of knowledge making in English studies have fallen short of addressing the imperialist underpinnings of modernist thought. This essay defines three key aspects of translingual approaches to composition and rhetoric (i.e., languaging, translating, and dwelling in borders) that can potentially involve scholars and students in meaning making that attempts to level linguistic and knowledge hierarchies that always index imperialist legacies of thought and deed.

Journal
College English
Published
2016-01-01
DOI
10.58680/ce201627654
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality race and writing translingualism multilingual writers

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