Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies New Latinx Keywords fo
This book brings together Latinx scholars in rhetoric and composition to discuss important conceptual terms that have been misused or appropriated by forces working against the interests of minority students. In educational and political forums, rhetorics
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Edited by Iris D. Ruiz and Raúl Sánchez
Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Iris D. Ruiz • Raúl Sánchez Editors
Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy
Editors Iris D. Ruiz University of California - Merced Merced, California, USA
Raúl Sánchez University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-52723-3 ISBN 978-1-137-52724-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52724-0
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FOREWORD
Keywords. The editors will tell us that this is what this book is about—keywords in consideration of the decolonial imaginary. So let me do my part, by way of whetting your appetites for the chapters that follow by looking at three words: “postcolonial,” “decolonial,” and the reason for my referring to “the imaginary.” We tend to know of postcolonialism within rhetoric, thanks in part to the work of Andrea Lunsford, who is cited in the pages that follow. And, of course, we know those from other disciplines whose work refers specifically to the postcolonial. At least a couple of the decolonial’s major figures have found their way into our conversations, mainly Enrique Dussel and Walter Mignolo. But, really, “the decolonial” is a term new to us in Rhetoric and in Composition Studies. So how are the post- and the dedifferent? In some sense, they aren’t very much. The postcolonial arises from political decisions following World War II, when much of South Asia and much of Africa were released from classical colonial control. In addition, most of what we seem attracted to, because of its explicit tie to rhetoric and the English language, comes from South Asia (an oversimplification, I know, b
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