Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing

Informationen zum Autor DAMIÁN BACA is assistant professor of Rhetoric & Writing, Chicano-Latino studies, and American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. Baca earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 2006. Klappentext Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus! pictographic! non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge alphabetic dominance! thereby undermining the colonized territories of "writing." Strategic weavings of Aztec and European inscription systems not only promote historically-grounded accounts of how recorded information is expressed across cultures! but also speak to emerging studies on "visual/multimodal" education. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz@ literacies advance "new" ways of reading and writing! applicable to diverse classrooms of the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of "writing." Strategic weavings of Aztec and European inscription systems not only promote historically-grounded accounts of how recorded information is expressed across cultures, but also speak to emerging studies on "visual/multimodal" education. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz@ literacies advance "new" ways of reading and writing, applicable to diverse classrooms of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Mestiz@ Scripts and the Rhetoric of Subversion * New Consciousness/Ancient Myths * Mestiz@: A Brief History, from Mexicatl to Chican@ * Codex Scripts of Resistance: From Columbus to the Border Patrol * The Spreading of Color: Sacred Scripts and the Genesis of the Rio Grande * Gloria Anzaldúa and the Territories of Writing * Thinking and Teaching across Borders and Hemispheres...

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• Authors: D Baca, D. Baca, Damian Baca
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349372690
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37269-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Concepts in Latino America; New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Kulturwissenschaften, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Cultural Studies, Writing, Rhetoric, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature