Innovation in Language Learning
An Andean Text in the Classroom
Blanca Aranda Gómez García, Western Washington University (United States)
Abstract
In this proposal we try to contribute to the study of the theory of intertextuality from the "alternative text" of the textile. To achieve this, we will focus on three of its basic characteristics: its visual foundation, its ability to connect what we call “la matrix textual” (the textual matrix) with “la matriz social” (the social womb), and, following the proposal of Arnold and Espejo in El textil tridimensional, its object/subject principle. Considering that our students are great image readers, our proposal tries to potentiate their
ability to read beyond the written words while aims to create a conscience about the specificities/limits of the written text. We would also like to educate our students about the great potentiality of an “alternative text” and its “textual practices”, based on a different language, such as a textile. Aligned with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s ideas, expressed in Sociología de la imagen, this work is based on the principle that decolonization can only take place through a reflective practice centered on the desire to recover a
memory and corporality of its own. Traditional studies that explore the concept of "intertextuality" are found within the written text and propose, in general terms, that the meaning of a text is not constructed independently but from a network of relations established between a text and all other texts it references. More specifically, the concept invites us to continue reflecting on the construction of meaning and it is within this framework that we elaborate our proposal. Even in societies where the relationship between
orality and writing has been around for centuries, when it comes to continue building the theory of intertextuality, the gaze always returns to the text par excellence: writing; by revisiting this theory, this proposal intends to approach the subject within an indigenous perspective.
Keywords: Alternative Texts, Books, Intertextuality, Language, Textual Practices, Textiles
REFERENCES:
[1] Arnold, Denise Y., and Elvira Espejo. El textil tridimensional. La naturaleza del tejido como objeto y como sujeto. ILCA, 2013.
[2] Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia. Sociología de la imagen. Miradas ch’ixi desde la historia andina. Tinta Limón, 2015.
