THE DARKER SIDE OF THE RENAISSANCE LITERACY, TERRITORIALITY, & COLONIZATION

MIGNOLO, WALTER D.

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ISBN:978-0-472-08931-4
EAN:9780472089314
Editorial: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Fecha de la edición:2003
Número de la edición: 2
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Encuadernación:RUSTICA
Nº Pág.:480
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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / HISTORIA / HISTORIA Y CULTURA DE HISPANOAMERICA

The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, Walter D. Mignolo claims that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization. It has long been acknowledged that Amerindians were at a disadvantage in facing European invaders because native cultures did not employ the same kind of texts (hence "knowledge") that the Europeans valued. Yet no one but Mignolo has so thoroughly examined either the process or the implications of conquest and destruction through language. The book continues to challenge commonplace understandings of New World history and to stimulate new colonial and postcolonial scholarship.