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

• Autore: Gundaker Grey
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Disciplina: 408/.996073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Communication; African Americans - Languages; African languages - Influence on English; Black English; English language - United States - Foreign elements; Literacy - United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Signs of diaspora
• ISBN: 0-19-772614-3; 1-280-52899-0; 0-19-535538-5; 1-4294-0435-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785097503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.