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Mestiz@ scripts, digital migrations and the territories of writing / Damián Baca ; foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff.
Penn Museum Library F1219.3.W94 B33 2008
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LIBRA F1219.3.W94 B33 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baca, Damián, 1975-
- Series:
- New concepts in Latino American cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Picture-writing--Mexico--History.
- Picture-writing.
- Mestizos--History.
- Mestizos.
- Mestizos--Social life and customs.
- Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian).
- Indians of Mexico--Languages--Writing.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Central America--Languages--Writing.
- Indians of Central America.
- Culture--Semiotic models.
- Culture.
- History.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 210 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Mestiza scripts, digital migrations and the territories of writing
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- Common assumptions about written communication depend upon the alphabet as a precondition for literacy. By privileging the alphabet, pictographic and non-verbal writing systems of Mesoamerica become obscured. Contemporary Mestiz@ scripts, however, undermine alphabetic dominance and defy the territories of "writing." By strategically fusing and embellishing Mesoamerican inscriptions into Western alphabets, Mestiz@ expressions promote new strategies for inventing and writing between worlds. Moreover, these practices support historically sound accounts of how recorded information changes across cultures and time. Beyond emerging studies of visual/electronic literacy, Mestiz@ scripts advance "new" ways of reading, writing, and learning, fundamentally altering the character of 21st century education.
- Contents:
- 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
- Crossing borders : Gloria Anzaldúa and the territories of English composition
- Thinking and teaching across borders and hemispheres.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-204) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 023060515X
- 9780230605152
- OCLC:
- 176926052
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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