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MisReading America

By Wimbush

MisReading America

By Wimbush

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MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures--''scripturalizing''--as an analytical wedge. Scriptures here are understood as shorthand for complex social phenomena, practices, and dynamics. The authors take up scripturalizing as a window onto the self-understandings, politics, practices, and orientations of marginalized communities. These communities have in common the context that is the United States, with the challenges it holds for all regarding: pressure to conform to conventional-canonical forms of communication, representation, and embodiment (mimicry); opportunities to speak back to and confront and overturn conventionality (interruptions); and the need to experience ongoing meaningful and complex relationships (reorientation) to the centering politics, practices, and myths that define ''America.''
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
326
Release Date:
2013-08-08
Publication Date:
2011-02-10
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199975418
ISBN13:
9780199975419
Weight:
655 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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