Winner of the 2020 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (Edited Collection)
The discipline of composition and rhetoric stands at a crossroad in its
pedagogical, research, and public commitments. Decolonial ruptures in
writing and rhetoric studies work to build new horizons, new histories,
of local knowledges and meaning-making practices that break from Western
hegemonic models of knowledge production. This collection functions as
one access point within a constellation of such work, forming an ecology
of decolonial shifts informed by strategies for potentially decolonizing
language and literacy practices, writing and rhetorical instruction, and
research practices and methods.
Rhetorics elsewhere and otherwise emerge across a spectrum, from geo-
and body politics of knowledge and understanding to local histories
emerging from colonial peripheries. Romeo García and Damián Baca offer
the expressions elsewhere and otherwise as invitations to join existing
networks and envision pluriversal ways of thinking, writing, and
teaching that surpass the field's Eurocentric geographies,
cartographies, and chronologies.
About the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series
In this series, the methods of studies vary from the critical to
historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work
in various fields that inform composition--including rhetoric,
communication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural
studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse--ranging
from individual writers and teachers, to classrooms and communities and
curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts
of writing and its teaching.
