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MISREADING AMERICA
SCRIPTURES AND DIFFERENCE |
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Lalruatkima, Melissa Renee Reid, Vincent L. Wimbush (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£43.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199975426 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199975426 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
8 August, 2013 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures-''scripturalizing''-as analytical wedge. |
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MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures-"scripturalizing"-as an analytical wedge. Scriptures here are understood as shorthand for complex social phenomena, practices, and dynamics. The authors take up scripturalizing as a window onto the self-understandings, politics, practices, and orientations of marginalized communities. These communities have in common the context that is the United States, with the challenges it holds for all regarding: pressure to conform to conventional-canonical forms of communication, representation, and embodiment (mimicry); opportunities to speak back to and confront and overturn conventionality (interruptions); and the need to experience ongoing meaningful and complex relationships (reorientation) to the centering politics, practices, and myths that define "America." |
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4 illus. |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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