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“Shizhou Yang has taken an innovative Global South perspective on literacy autobiographies with stories by himself as an EFL writing teacher as well as those by his students from China in diverse transnational contexts. The result is a fascinating and thought-provoking account that not only contributes to theoretical discussions of concepts such as critical pedagogy, translanguaging, and writing ecology, but also to pedagogical practices that will truly enable and empower the learners, and the teachers, to develop their own voices. As such, it is a major contribution to translingual and decolonising turn in language education research.” Professor Li Wei, Director & Dean, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK Like his cicada after its long formation, Shizhou emerges with translingual poetry Breaking free from the global and colonizing Pressures against his voice in literacy. Not alone, he emerges with his whole musical army— His students—with their own translingual story. But these cicadas won’t die too quickly; Their voices will transform the dominant pedagogy. Suresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA “This is a captivating book about the liberating intellectual journey of Shizhou Yang, who has found his voice and identity as a multilingual scholar through writing his own literacy autobiography. Also featuring the autobio- graphical writing of the author’s students situated in a marginalized context, the book celebrates the power of literacy autobiography as an undervalued genre in EFL contexts, demonstrating how it is intertwined with identity work, voice development, and knowledge creation. I highly recommend the book to everyone.” Icy Lee, Professor, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China “Featuring literacy autobiography and poetic inquiry as methodology, this book has provided EFL teachers and students with a proven way to gain lib- eration from the shackles of modernism and neoliberalism. It is a must-read for anyone who is keen in search for Southern epistemologies in English language teaching.” Xiaoye You, Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA LITERACY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH Drawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into literacy, voice, trans- lingualism, and critical pedagogy from a Global South perspective. The book presents literacy autobiographies as a cultural tool for analyzing and refashioning learners’ and teachers’ sense of self in ever-expanding dialogical spaces. In addition to highlighting teachers’ own stories around autoethnographies and translanguaging, it showcases literacy autobiographies from Chinese students them- selves. The book theorizes the Global South as an ontological positioning that chal- lenges colonial mindsets and practices concerning literacy, language learning, and narratives. It argues that literacy autobiographies from a Global South perspective can be reimagined as critical pedagogy for EFL writing teaching and learning, as well as teacher development. Validating and expanding student voices by presenting these literacy autobiog- raphies, this book will be of great interest to researchers and students in the fields of TESOL, applied linguistics, English language teaching, second language writing, and literacy studies. Shizhou Yang is a second language writer, writing teacher, and researcher in the English Communication Department at Payap University, Thailand. Global South Perspectives on TESOL Series editor: Osman Z. Barnawi Global South Perspectives on TESOL is an international, multidisciplinary series focusing on studies that examine issues of TESOL through recovering the rich histories, theories, and practices of multilingual education developed in traditionally non-English-dominant contexts and communities. Purposefully situated beyond monolingual ideologies, legacies and research theories and practices, this series solicits new studies that critically engage with epistemologies, theories and practices of TESOL, and offer a transformative change that allows the scholarship of TESOL to advance. The series envisions decolonizing research theories and practices in TESOL and thinking outside the dominance of Western/Northern models as departure points to advancing the field of TESOL. This series will also be a venue for scholars in the Global South to collaborate with Global North scholars in order to promote global harmony in TESOL. It features scholarly works that examine issues surrounding TESOL from new angles, including local theories, pedagogies and practices, and works of novice and under-represented authors. The series welcomes single-authored or multi-authored monographs and edited volumes on areas including epistemological racism in TESOL; social justice in TESOL; issues of race, gender, and class in TESOL; theories of change in TESOL; translanguaging in TESOL classrooms; Southern theories of TESOL; post-human thoughts in TESOL and decolonizing research theories and practices in TESOL. Books in the series include: Transnational English Language Assessment Practices in the Age of Metrics Edited by Osman Z. Barnawi, Mohammed S. Alharbi and Ayman A. Alzahrani Literacy Autobiographies from the Global South Shizhou Yang Social Justice, Decoloniality, and Southern Epistemologies within Language Education Theories, Knowledges, and Practices on TESOL from Brazil Edited by Vander Tavares For more information about the series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/ our-products/book-series/GSTESOL. LITERACY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH An Autoethnographic Study of English Literacy in China Shizhou Yang First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 Shizhou Yang The right of Shizhou Yang to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Yang, Shizhou, author. Title: Literacy autobiographies from the global south : an autoethnographic study of English literacy in China / Shizhou Yang. Description: 1st edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Global south perspectives on TESOL | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2022036606 (print) | LCCN 2022036607 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032251981 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032265391 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003288756 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Autobiography--Authorship. | Biography as a literary form. | Literacy--China. | Translanguaging (Linguistics) | English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--China. Classification: LCC PE1479.A88 Y37 2023 (print) | LCC PE1479.A88 (ebook) | DDC 306.442/21051--dc23/eng/20221018 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022036606 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022036607 ISBN: 978-1-032-25198-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-26539-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-28875-6 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003288756 Typeset in Bembo by SPi Technologies India Pvt Ltd (Straive) In memory of Michael and Kitty Wilson who loved, laughed, and served faithfully throughout their lives beyond national, racial, and linguistic boundaries CONTENTS Editor’s Preface xi Acknowledgements xii PART I A Teacher’s Stories 1 1 An EFL Writing Teacher’s Poetic Autoethnography of Literacy Autobiography 3 2 My Own Literacy Autobiography 18 PART II Theory and Empirical Studies 35 3 Literacy Autobiographical Writing as Critical Pedagogy 37 4 Pedagogical Translanguaging Behind Literacy Autobiographical Writing 58 5 The Emergence of Translingualism in an EFL Writer’s LA 80 6 Voice Construction Beyond Translingualism 97
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