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

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.

Author: D. Baca
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/15/2008
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230605152

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 08/01/2008 pg. 17

About the Author

DAMIÁN BACA is assistant professor of Rhetoric & Writing, Chicano-Latino studies, and American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. Baca earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 2006.

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