Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing
Author | : D. Baca |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2008-05-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230612570 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230612571 |
Rating | : 4/5 (571 Downloads) |
Download or read book Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing written by D. Baca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.