ABSTRACT
In our introduction, we offered a map of the field, parsing conversations apart, working to identify the effects of the work for portraying literacy as disciplined practice; literacy as embodied, affective practices located across time and in spaces and discourse communities; bodies as social texts that re-present themselves while they are represented; and bodies as affective, mobile, indeterminate makers of texts, selves, and meanings. We also invited you to read this work as a conversation, to consider the ways different frameworks are taken up, to different ends, for different purposes. We called on you to feel the affordances in the writing. And we acknowledge that while we organized this book according to four key conversations about literacies and bodies, we could also have constructed this conversation to highlight different perspectives. How do these works help us reframe literacy?
