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Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America (Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture)
Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs Literacies Creolization and Vernacular Practice in African America - Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture
Author: Grey Gundaker
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 opposit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195107692
ISBN-10: 0195107691
Publication Date: 7/2/1998
Pages: 291
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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