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SIGNS OF DIASPORA/DIASPORA OF SIGNS
LITERACIES, CREOLIZATION, AND VERNACULAR PRACTICE IN AFRICAN AMERICA |
| By: |
Grey Gundaker |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£120.00 |
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£116.40 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195107691 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195107692 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1998 |
| Series: |
Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, Gerry Gundaker looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. He shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings. Through 95 vivid illustrations of objects ranging from stuffed Snoopy dolls andmailboxes to graffiti and inverted flower pots, Gundaker highlights the way in which African-American culture combined and transformed resources from previously divergent traditions to create a unique, non-traditional mode of expression. |
| Synopsis: |
Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings. Distinct from conventional script literacy on the one hand, and oral culture on the other, these "creolized" vernacular practices include writing in charms, use of personal or nondecodable scripts, the strategic renunciation of reading and writing as communicative tools, and writing that is linked to divinaton, trance, and possession. Based on extensive ethnographic research in the Southeastern United States and the West Indies, Gundaker offers a complex portrait of the intersection of "outsider" conventions with "insider" knowledge and practice. |
| Illustrations: |
5 halftones, numerous line drawings |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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