Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America

Name: Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America
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ISBN: 9780195107692

ISBN-10: 0195107691

ISBN-13: 9780195107692

Edition: 1998

Authors: Grey Gundaker

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Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings. Distinct from conventional script literacy on the one hand, and oral culture on the other, these "creolized" vernacular practices include writing in charms, use of personal or nondecodable scripts, the strategic renunciation of reading and writing as communicative tools, and writing that is linked to divinaton,…

Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.29" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990




Introduction: "Conventional" Literacy and "Vernacular" Practice



Creolization, Double Voicing, Double Vision



African Scripts, Graphic Practices, and Contexts of Learning and Use



Diaspora of Signs: A Transatlantic Network



Narratives of Literacy Acquisition and Use



Alternative Modes of Participation with Text and Artifacts of Literacy



Contrasting and Complementary Scripts and Graphic Signs


Notes


References


Index