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Mestiza/o Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing by Damián Baca (auth.) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Damián Baca (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282048867
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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