9780472103270 - The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization de Mignolo, Walter (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Book is in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Winner of the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. 'The Darker Side of the Renaissance' weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, geography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Walter D. Mignolo locates the privileging of European forms of literacy at the heart of New World colonization. He examines how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, what role "the book" has played in colonial relations, and the many connections between writing, social organization, and political control. It has long been acknowledged that Amerindians were at a disadvantage in facing European invaders because native cultures did not employ the same kind of texts (hence "knowledge") that were validated by the Europeans. Yet no study until this one has so thoroughly analyzed either the process or the implications of conquest and destruction through sign systems. Starting with the contrasts between Amerindian and European writing systems, Mignolo moves through such topics as the development of Spanish grammar, the different understandings of the book as object and text, principles of genre in history-writing, and an analysis of linguistic descriptions and mapping techniques in relation to the construction of territoriality and understandings of cultural space. The Darker Side of the Renaissance will significantly challenge commonplace understandings of New World history. More importantly, it will continue to stimulate and provide models for new colonial and post-colonial scholarship.

Condición: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are foxed. Binding is sturdy. The upper corners of the covers are bumped. Dust jacket is lightly edge worn.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. First edition 1995, first printing, number line starts with 1. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights no bent page corner, Not a reminder. DJ new, bright and shiny, no edgewear no tears no chips, Not clipped. No highlighting or underlining. 8vo, 426 pages with b/w illustrations and including notes, bibliography, index and illustration credits.

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