Posthumanism and Literacy Education

Candace R. Kuby is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Missouri, USA. Karen Spector is Associate Professor of Secondary Education Language Arts at the University of Alabama, USA. Jaye Johnson Thiel is a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Georgia, USA.

Cuts Too Small: An Introduction; Part 1: Agency 1. Threads and Fingerprints: Diffractive Writings and Readings of Place 2. A Thebuwa Hauntology, From Silence to Speech: Reconfiguring Literacy Practices 3. Careful! There Are Monsters in This Chapter: Posthuman Ethical Considerations in Literacy Practice; Diffracting: The Ungraspable In-Between of Posthuman Literacies; Part 2: Intra-activity and Entanglement 4. The Untimely Death of a Bird: A Posthuman Tale 5. Reading Acts: Books, Activisms, and an Autopoietic Politics 6. Étienne Souriau and Educational Literacy Research as an Instaurative Event; Diffracting: Human Limbs, Dead Birds, Active Books, and Bucking Horses: The Work to-be-Made of Literacies in the Present; Monster Mutation The First Mutation: Sliding Into Summer; Part 3: Subjectivity 7. Lives, Lines, and Spacetimemattering: An Intra-Active Analysis of a ‘Once OK’ Adult Writer 8. Collage Pedagogy: Toward a Posthuman Racial Literacy 9. Choosing a Picturebook as Provocation in Teacher Education: The ‘Posthuman Family’; Diffracting: Posthuman Literacies in a Minor Language: Expressions-to-Come; Monster Mutation: The Second Mutation: The Workshop Approach for Reading and Writing Instruction; Part 4: Affect 10. The Posthuman Condition of Ethics in Early Childhood Literacy: Order-in(g) Be(e)ing Literacy 11. Encountering Waste Landscapes: More-Than-Human Place Literacies in Early Childhood Education 12. Abductions; Diffracting: Theory that Cats Have About Swift Louseflies: A Distractive Response; Monster Mutation: The Third Mutation: An Invitation of Being-With Monsters, Care-fully, Response-ably