The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization
By Walter Mignolo.
Description
Winner of the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize.The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, geography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World.Walter D. Mignolo locates the privileging of European forms of literacy at the heart of New World colonization. He examines how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, what role "the book" has played in colonial relations, and the many connections between writing, social organiz...
ISBN(s)
0472084372, 9780472084371
