Inhuman Literacies and Affective Refusals: Thinking with Sylvia Wynter and Secondary School English

Autor/in	Truman, Sarah E.
Titel	Inhuman Literacies and Affective Refusals: Thinking with Sylvia Wynter and Secondary School English
Quelle	In: Curriculum Inquiry, 49 (2019) 1, S.110-128 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0362-6784
DOI	10.1080/03626784.2018.1549465
Schlagwörter	English Instruction; Secondary School Students; Literacy; World Views; Affective Behavior; Humanism; Story Telling; Grade 9; Creative Writing; Western Civilization; Student Attitudes; Student Diversity; Muslims; Physical Activities; Brainstorming; Foreign Countries; Poetry; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Sekundarschüler; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; World view; Weltanschauung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Humanismus; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Kreatives Schreiben; Schülerverhalten; Muslim; Muslimin; Ausland; Lyrik; Poesie
Abstract	This paper considers how literacy and education more broadly reflect and reproduce world views and communicative practices rooted in the western epistemological conceptualization of what Sylvia Wynter calls "Man". I frictionally think-with Wynter's hybridity of bios and logos (mythoi), and more-than-human theories in relation to an in-school study in a secondary English classroom. I focus on how affect and refusal have the potential to operate as "inhuman literacies" that can unsettle the humanism of normative approaches to literacy education. Finally, I engage with Wynter's "homo narrans," which is the idea that we became who we are as a species in part through storytelling. While this storying capability has been used to uphold and reinforce the dominant world order, it also has the potential to rupture humanism from within. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01