D. Baca, Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing

BACA, Damian, Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures), 2008, 240 p.
ISBN 0-230-60515-X


RÉSUMÉ

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 DES MATIÈRES

Mestiz@ Scripts and the Rhetoric of Subversion * New Consciousness/Ancient Myths * Mestiz@: A Brief History, from Mexicatl to Chican@ * Codex Scripts of Resistance: From Columbus to the Border Patrol * The Spreading of Color: Sacred Scripts and the Genesis of the Rio Grande * Gloria Anzaldúa and the Territories of Writing * Thinking and Teaching across Borders and Hemispheres


BIOGRAPHIE

Damián Baca-Espinosa is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Chicano-Latino Studies, and American Indian Studies at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 2006.