ABSTRACT

Covering key terms and concepts in the emerging field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism, not as a lofty theory, but as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world. The contributors explore the ways that posthumanism helps educators better understand how students, families, and communities come to know/become/do literacies with other humans and nonhumans. Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologies in literacy education. With contributions from a range of scholars, from emerging to established, and from both U.S. and international settings, the volume covers literacy practices from pre-K to adult literacy across various contexts. Chapter authors not only wrestle with methodological tensions in doing posthumanist research, but also situate it within pedagogies of teaching literacies. Inviting readers to pause, slow down, and consider posthumanist ways of thinking about agency, intra-activity, subjectivity, and affect, this book explores and experiments with new ways of seeing, understanding, and defining literacies, and allows readers to experience and intra-act with the book in ways more traditional (re)presentations do not.

chapter |17 pages

Cuts Too Small

An Introduction

part I|50 pages

Agency

chapter 1|16 pages

Threads and Fingerprints

Diffractive Writings and Readings of Place

chapter 2|18 pages

A Thebuwa Hauntology, From Silence to Speech

Reconfiguring Literacy Practices

chapter 3|6 pages

Careful! There Are Monsters in This Chapter

Posthuman Ethical Considerations in Literacy Practice

chapter |7 pages

Diffracting

The Ungraspable In-Between of Posthuman Literacies

part II|58 pages

Intra-Action and Entanglement

chapter 4|11 pages

The Untimely Death of a Bird

A Posthuman Tale

chapter 5|13 pages

Reading Acts

Books, Activisms, and an Autopoietic Politics

chapter |6 pages

Diffracting

Human Limbs, Dead Birds, Active Books, and Bucking Horses: The Work to-be-Made of Literacies in the Present

chapter |12 pages

The First Monster Mutation

Sliding Into Summer

part III|58 pages

Subjectivity

chapter 7|12 pages

Lives, Lines, and Spacetimemattering

An Intra-Active Analysis of a ‘Once OK’ Adult Writer

chapter 8|14 pages

Collage Pedagogy

Toward a Posthuman Racial Literacy

chapter 9|14 pages

Choosing a Picturebook as Provocation in Teacher Education

The ‘Posthuman Family’

chapter |5 pages

Diffracting

Posthuman Literacies in a Minor Language: Expressions-to-Come

chapter |9 pages

The Second Monster Mutation

The Workshop Approach for Reading and Writing Instruction

part IV|54 pages

Affect

chapter 10|14 pages

The Posthuman Condition of Ethics in Early Childhood Literacy

Order-in(g) Be(e)ing Literacy

chapter 11|13 pages

Encountering Waste Landscapes

More-Than-Human Place Literacies in Early Childhood Education

chapter 12|14 pages

Abductions

chapter |7 pages

Diffracting

Theory That Cats Have About Swift Louseflies: A Distractive Response

chapter |4 pages

The Third Monster Mutation

An Invitation of Being-With Monsters, Care-fully, Response-ably