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

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  • © 2008

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  1. Damián Baca
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Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Mestiz@ Scripts and the Rhetoric of Subversion

    • Damián Baca
    Pages 1-14

  3. New Consciousness/Ancient Myths

    • Damián Baca
    Pages 15-32

  4. Mestiz@: A Brief History, from Mexicatl to Chican@

    • Damián Baca
    Pages 33-61

  5. Codex Scripts of Resistance: From Columbus to the Border Patrol

    • Damián Baca
    Pages 65-93

  6. The Spreading of Color: Sacred Scripts and the Genesis of the Rio Grande

    • Damián Baca
    Pages 95-118

  7. Crossing Borders: Gloria Anzaldúa and the Territories of English Composition

    • Damián Baca
    Pages 119-132

  8. Thinking and Teaching Across Borders and Hemispheres

    • Damián Baca
    Pages 133-163

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 165-210
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About this book

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.

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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