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There Is No Making It Out
Stories-So-Far and the Possibilities of New Stories
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Through classroom ethnography, student interviews, analyses of settler archives, and personal reflection, There Is No Making It Out addresses the legacies of settler colonialism and settler rhetorics and their continued impact on how (subaltern) peoples see the world, walk through it, and interact with others. Romeo García argues that concepts of decoloniality prompt crucial counter-rhetorics and writing that are necessary but perhaps ultimately unattainable. In the demand for something else, and at the intersection between a praxical theorizing and theory-building actioning, There Is No Making It Out works to de-link and reclaim an archival approach as a critical method and also reclaim a theory of archival impressions as a theoretical apparatus deeply attuned both to tilling the ground on which power takes root and to a full spectrum of Matter (living, nonliving, nonhuman). García offers no definitive resolutions but, situated between two rhetorical standpoints—stories-so-far and the possibilities of new stories—There Is No Making It Out channels a hope and struggle for wor(l)ding otherwise.
Author / Editor information
Romeo García is assistant professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah. He is coeditor of Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise, Unsettling Archival Research, and Pluriversal Literacies, and his interdisciplinary research appears in College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Across the Disciplines, and Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture.
Reviews
“A stunning contribution. García shows us that a decolonial perspective—one that resists simple binaries—is, in fact, not an option but a necessity if we are to understand the interconnectedness of literacy, place, and history.”
—Mya Poe, Northeastern University
“Theorizing from archival analysis, classroom practice, and personal experience, this book’s inquiries and insights will be significant to many scholars in our field, across research interests and methodologies.”
—Raúl Sánchez, University of Florida
—Mya Poe, Northeastern University
“Theorizing from archival analysis, classroom practice, and personal experience, this book’s inquiries and insights will be significant to many scholars in our field, across research interests and methodologies.”
—Raúl Sánchez, University of Florida
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Figures
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Use of Archives, Interviews, Conversations, and Words
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Shorthand and Key Phrases
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Acknowledgments
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Prologue
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Introduction (Decolonizing) Archival Impressions
1 - Section 1 An Archival Interruption
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Reflexión-Meditación
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1 An Epistemic System and Modern/ Colonial and Settlerizing Designs
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Reflexión-Meditación
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2 Corrido-ing the Idea of Utah and Mormon/ism
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Reflexión-Meditación
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3 Corrido-ing the Idea of Texas-LRGV and the Settler
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Reflexión-Meditación
171 - Section 2 Decolonizing Archival Impressions
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4 Making It Out of Haunting Mentalities
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Reflexión-Meditación
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5 Making It Out of Haunted Mentalities
229 - Section 3 The Demand for Something Else
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Reflexión-Meditación
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Conclusion
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References
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Permissions
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Index
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eBook published on:
May 2, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781646426782
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Keywords for this book
critical archival studies; historiography; decolonial studies; discourse analysis; cultural studies
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
