MisReading America

MisReading America
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9780199977338
ISBN-13 : 019997733X
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Book Synopsis MisReading America by : Vincent L. Wimbush

Download or read book MisReading America written by Vincent L. Wimbush and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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