Paradigmatic Fronteras: Sticky Tack, Emergent Bilinguals, and the Emergence of Literacy

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Cross-Cultural Explorations in Language and Literacies

Abstract

In this inquiry, I, a critical scholar who has been reticent of the posthuman turn in literacy studies, explore the borders between the humanistic ontological and epistemological orientations of the New Literacies Studies and Translanguaging theory and the ontoepistemologies of post- human literacies. Set in the context of a bilingual
poetry workshop in community-based center that served the Latinx community in urban, South Philadelphia, I explore an emergence of literacy through sticky tack and two emergent bilingual children. I frame that emergence of literacy as not conforming to a generic and intentional literacy design framework, as posited by a New Literacies
framework. Rather, literacy, saturated with affect, emerged and unfolded from an assemblage of materials, unpredictable and without intent.

Author

• Stephanie Lynn Abraham, Rowan University