ABSTRACT
This article proposes the ethnographic metaphor of transliteracies. We understand transliteracies as practices of social use of writing which replicate and displace experiences of socialization mediated by the technology of writing and acquired in multiple literacy agencies - transit points such as the school, the church, the family, the musical group, the political group. Based on empirical evidence from our research on literacies, cultural production and metapragmatic regimes in the Complexo do Alemão/RJ and on the dialogue with Raphael Calazans and Janaína Tavares, youths who circulate around different social time-spaces, we also argue that transliteracies are important metaphors to understanding the question of survival. While exceeding modern boundaries such as life and death, school and society, rule of law and penal state, survival permits that we think about the strategies devised by subaltern subjects in their inscribing of their own histories.
Keywords:
transliteracies; literacies of survival; linguistic ethnography