ERIC Number: EJ1357205
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Nov
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0008-4506
EISSN: EISSN-1710-1131
"Language Lives in Our Bodies Not Just in Our Heads": Embodied Reading and Becoming beyond the Molar
Carroll, Shawna M.
Canadian Modern Language Review, v78 n4 p326-343 Nov 2022
This article focuses on one aspect of a literacy research project: how reading and language enable embodied processes that allow for fluidity and becomings outside of the static, molar normative discourse in society and consequently in language education. I explain how one research participant continues becoming outside of white settler-colonial understandings of bilingual-immigrant-racialized-woman, through reading a counternarrative fiction in a book club. Using a feminist Deleuzian methodology, I blend different data to make connections drawing on Coloma, Deleuze and Guattari, and Sumara. Through the analysis of one hot spot, I explain how the participant continues becoming through her self-identification as a speaker of Spanish and English, Venezuelan, Latinx immigrant-settler woman, in ways that resist molar, binary white settler-colonial understandings of her subject positions within education and literature, and how she creates a more liveable life through molecularity or fluidity. The inclusion of counternarrative fiction is pertinent for language classrooms, as creating a more liveable life beyond white settler-colonial binaries through embodied processes of reading fiction creates many possibilities for minoritized students.
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Colonialism, Land Settlement, Bilingualism, Immigrants, Females, Fiction, Books, Clubs, Minority Group Students, Whites, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hispanic Americans, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept, Feminism, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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