Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)

By Damián Baca

Conventional scholarship on written verbal exchange positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. therefore, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica stay obscured through representations of lettered speech. This ebook examines how modern Mestiz@ scripts problem alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of "writing." Strategic weavings of Aztec and eu inscription platforms not just advertise historically-grounded debts of the way recorded details is expressed throughout cultures, but in addition communicate to rising stories on "visual/multimodal" schooling. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz@ literacies boost "new" methods of examining and writing, appropriate to assorted study rooms of the twenty-first century.

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