1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005743840403321

Autore

Polizzi, Paolo

Titolo

Origine e fenomenologia della coscienza tragica / Paolo Polizzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palermo : Manfredi (, (stampa 1970))

Descrizione fisica

187 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Biblioteca di metafisica del principio ; 4

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

NON CONSULTABILE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785097503321

Autore

Gundaker Grey

Titolo

Signs of diaspora/diaspora of signs : literacies, creolization, and vernacular practice in African America / / Grey Gundaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998

ISBN

0-19-772614-3

1-280-52899-0

0-19-535538-5

1-4294-0435-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Collana

The Commonwealth Center studies in American culture

Disciplina

408/.996073

Soggetti

African Americans - Communication

African Americans - Languages

African languages - Influence on English

Black English

English language - United States - Foreign elements

Literacy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction: ""Conventional"" Literacy and ""Vernacular"" Practice; 2 Creolization, Double Voicing, Double Vision; 3 African Scripts, Graphic Practices, and Contexts of Learning and Use; 4 Diaspora of Signs: A Transatlantic Network; 5 Narratives of Literacy Acquisition and Use; 6 Alternative Modes of Participation with Text and Artifacts of Literacy; 7 Contrasting and Complementary Scripts and Graphic Signs; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

This text looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It demonstrates that African-Americans, while utilizing the conventions and canons of Euro-America, drew on knowledge of their own to make oppositional meanings.