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

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

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations,and the Territories of Writing
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Pronunciation Guide and BriefChronology: 500,000 BCE–2012 CE
  8. I Mestiz@ Scripts and theRhetoric of Subversion
  9. II New Consciousness/Ancient Myths
  10. III Mestiz@: A Brief History,from Mexicatl to Chican@
  11. IV Codex Scripts of Resistance:From Columbus to the Border Patrol
  12. V The Spreading of Color: Sacred Scriptsand the Genesis of the Rio Grande
  13. VI Crossing Borders: Gloria Anzaldúa and theTerritories of English Composition
  14. VII Thinking and Teaching AcrossBorders and Hemispheres
  15. Notes
  16. Glossary
  17. Bibliography
  18. Reading and Discussion Guide
  19. Index