Delinking Multiliteracies and the Reimagining of Literacy Studies

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper proposes to critically read the multiliteracies proposal through a decolonial lens. It has two fundamental aspects: one, of an epistemic nature, refers to the need to de-link the concept from a particular hegemonic scholarship so that local knowledge production may prevent literacy practices from universalisms and methodologization; the other, of a technological nature, refers to the need to de-link the concept of multiliteracies from its apparent subjection to the digital.

Keywords

• delinking
• decolonial
• multiliteracies
• diversity
• local knowledges