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

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

Baca, D.

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 023060515X
ISBN13: 9780230605152
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 15 2008
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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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