Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing Paperback / softback
by D. Baca
Part of the New Directions in Latino American Cultures series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Pages:210 pages, XXIV, 210 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:15/05/2008
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- ISBN:9781349372690
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:210 pages, XXIV, 210 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:15/05/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781349372690
