Inscriptions of worldliness: linguistic materiality and the poetics of the vernacular

Translanguaging and place-making in writing for publication

“…The creative form reveals various layers of translocal and translingual writing practices.Translanguaging is intricately connected to place-making and the evocation of communities in both fictional and academic texts. While limited by "re gimes of comprehensibility" (Bodin, Helgesson & Huss, 2020), it carries potential for learning and for political activism. Ultimately, our insights and our writing experiment aim to question what counts as a legitimate text and to suggest alternative ways of meaning-making in academic and creative writing practices.…”