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

D. Baca

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780230605152
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230612570
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations,and the Territories of Writing
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Pronunciation Guide and BriefChronology: 500,000 BCE–2012 CE
• I Mestiz@ Scripts and theRhetoric of Subversion
• II New Consciousness/Ancient Myths
• III Mestiz@: A Brief History,from Mexicatl to Chican@
• IV Codex Scripts of Resistance:From Columbus to the Border Patrol
• V The Spreading of Color: Sacred Scriptsand the Genesis of the Rio Grande
• VI Crossing Borders: Gloria Anzaldúa and theTerritories of English Composition
• VII Thinking and Teaching AcrossBorders and Hemispheres
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Reading and Discussion Guide
• Index