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The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, &
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The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization, 2nd Edition Paperback - 2003 - 2nd Edition

by Walter Mignolo

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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.
Walter D. Mignolo is Professor in the Department of Romance Studies and the Program in Literature, Duke University.

Details

  • Title The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization, 2nd Edition
  • Author Walter Mignolo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 488
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Michigan Press, ANN ARBOR, MI
  • Publication date 2003-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780472089314 / 0472089315
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 5.96 x 1.23 in (23.98 x 15.14 x 3.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Writing - History, Latin America - Historiography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003053339
  • Dewey Decimal Code 980.013

About the author

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature, Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University.

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