ABSTRACT

Combining language research with digital, multimodal, and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across an array of contexts. Studies of everyday diasporic practices across places, spaces, and people’s stories provide authentic pictures of people living in and with diversity. Its distinctive contribution is a framework to relate observation and analysis of these flows to language development, communication, and meaning making. Each chapter invites readers to reflect on the dynamism and complexity of spaces and contexts in an age of increasing mobility, political upheaval, economic instabilities, and online/offline landscapes.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times

part I|58 pages

Ethnoscapes

chapter 2|15 pages

Complicating Literacies

Settler Ways of Being with Story(ies) on Wabanaki Lands

chapter 4|15 pages

Multiliteracies Reconsidered

A “Pedagogy of Multiliteracies” in the Context of Inquiry-Based Approaches

chapter 5|15 pages

Examining the Relational Space of the Self and Other in the Language-Drama Classroom

Transcultural Multiliteracies, Situated Practice and the Cosmopolitan Imagination