Redoing Linguistic Worlds - (Critical Language and Literacy Studies) by Kris Aric Knisely & Eric Louis Russell (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting.
- About the Author: Kris Aric Knisely is Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence in the Department of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching PhD program as well as in the Trans Studies Research Cluster at the University of Arizona.
- 288 Pages
- Language + Art + Disciplines, Language Arts
- Series Name: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
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About the Book
This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender.
Book Synopsis
This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender.
Review Quotes
...the gathered papers are illuminating regarding the processes of and barriers to (re)making identities through language [...] The nine collected papers describe both monolingual and multilingual linguistic worlds, and dip into a variety of spaces-including the media, academia, and government [...] The chapters are approachable for those without a background in linguistics or trans-studies, especially if the reader starts with Chapter 1 [...] Many readers will be able to find something of use in its pages, and the closing chapter comes highly recommended.
At a time when far-right politicians and TERF scholars are fundamentally threatening trans and non-binary people's right to exist, this highly innovative edited collection offers an indispensable scholarly and political intervention illustrating the creative ways in which the gender binary is contested and reimagined. A must read!
Knisely and Russell have produced a timely collection, bringing to the fore speakers' unmaking of limited and binary structures in language, and the remaking of inclusive interactions with the self and others. This volume is an exciting journey beyond the cis-only world, gifting the field with new and much-needed terminology, concepts and experiences.
This book highlights the exclusionary reality that many trans and gender non-conforming people face when learning and using languages with grammatical gender. Addressing contexts both within and outside the classroom, the authors offer innovative and methodologically diverse approaches that effectively challenge the ongoing dominance of English in conversations about trans language.
About the Author
Kris Aric Knisely is Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence in the Department of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching PhD program as well as in the Trans Studies Research Cluster at the University of Arizona. Knisely's research focuses on gender justice in language education and research.
Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in both the Linguistics and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies departments at the University of California, Davis. His research considers contemporary Italian, French, Dutch and English linguacultures, asking how gender and gender expression, masculinities, power, authority and hegemonies are realized and disrupted through languaging and discursive activity.