The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and ColonizationUniversity of Michigan Press, 2003 - 463 pagina's The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, Walter D. Mignolo claims that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization. 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 the Europeans valued. Yet no one but Mignolo has so thoroughly examined either the process or the implications of conquest and destruction through language. The book continues to challenge commonplace understandings of New World history and to stimulate new colonial and postcolonial scholarship. Walter D. Mignolo is Professor in the Department of Romance Studies and the Program in Literature, Duke University. |
Inhoudsopgave
Nebrija in the New World Renaissance Philosophy of Language and the Spread of Western Literacy | 27 |
The Materiality of Reading and Writing Cultures The Chain of Sounds Graphic Signs and Sign Carriers | 67 |
Record Keeping without Letters and Writing Histories of People without History | 123 |
Genres as Social Practices Histories Enkyclopaideias and the Limits of Knowledge and Understanding | 169 |
The Movable Center Ethnicity Geometric Projections and Coexisting Territorialities | 217 |
Putting the Americas on the Map Cartography and the Colonization of Space | 257 |
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The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization Walter Mignolo Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2003 |
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization Walter Mignolo Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2003 |
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization Walter Mignolo Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1995 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Acosta Aldrete alphabetic writing Amerindian languages amoxtli ancient Aztec Bernardino de Sahagún Boturini cartography Castile Castilian Castilian language chap chapter Chilam Balam Christian civilization colonial semiosis colonial situations concept context cosmology Darker Side described discourse empire ethnic Europe European Renaissance example Florentine Codex Franciscans genres grammar Guaman hermeneutics historiography human humanist idea Inca Indias Indies intellectual invention knowledge Latin legacies lengua letters locus of enunciation López de Velasco Materiality of Reading Maya means memory Mesoamerica Mexico City Mignolo modern modern/colonial Nahuatl narrative Nebrija Notes to Pages oral organization painted perspective Peter Martyr philosophy philosophy of language pinturas political Putting the Americas quipu reading and writing rhetoric Ricci Roman Sahagún semiosis semiotic sign carriers sixteenth century space Spain Spaniards Spanish Spanish empire speech Tahuantinsuyu territorial tion tlacuilo translated understanding University Press Vico West word Writing Cultures written Yucatán peninsula
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