New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Baca, D.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-05-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230605152

DOI: 10.1057/9780230612570

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 210