Main entry:

Mignolo, Walter.

Title & Author:

The darker side of the Renaissance : literacy, territoriality, and colonization / Walter D. Mignolo.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2003.

Description:

xxii, 463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-413) and index.
Introduction : On describing ourselves describing ourselves : comparatism, differences, and pluritopic hermeneutics -- 1. Nebrija in the new world : Renaissance philosophy of language and the spread of western literacy -- 2. The materiality of reading and writing cultures : the chain of sounds, graphic signs, and sign carriers -- 3. Record keeping without letters and writing histories of people wiithout history -- 4. Genres as social practices : histories, Enkyclopaideias, and the limits of knowledge and understanding -- 5. The movable center : ethnicity, geometric projections, and coexisting territorialities -- 6. Putting the Americas on the map : cartography and the colonization of space -- Afterword : On modernity, colonization, and the rise of occidentalism.

Summary:

"The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social organization, and political control, including how alphabetic writing is linked with the exercise of power, Walter D. Mignolo claims that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization. It has long been acknowledged that Amerindians were at a disadvantage in facing European invaders because native cultures did not employ the same kind of texts (hence "knowledge") that the Europeans valued. Yet no one but Mignolo has so thoroughly examined either the process or the implications of conquest and destruction through language. The book continues to challenge commonplace understandings of New World history and to stimulate new colonial and postcolonial scholarship."--Back cover

Resources:
Table of contents
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0472089315 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472089314 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Indians Historiography.
Renaissance Spain.
Language and history Latin America.
Indians Languages Writing.
Writing History.
Cartography Spain History.
Architecture, Renaissance Spain.
Language and history
Indians languages
Indians writing
Writing history
Cartography history
Peuples autochtones Historiographie.
Architecture de la Renaissance Espagne.
Langage et histoire Amérique latine.
Langues des Peuples autochtones Écriture.
Écriture Histoire.
Cartographie Espagne Histoire.
Renaissance Espagne.
Architecture, Renaissance
Cartography
Historiography
Maps
Renaissance
Writing
Kartografie
Geschichtsschreibung
Kolonisation
Sprachphilosophie
Latin America Historiography.
Latin America History To 1600.
Latin America Maps History.
Latin America.
Latin America History Maps.
Spain
Amérique latine Historiographie.
Amérique latine Histoire Jusqu'à 1600.
Amérique latine Histoire Cartes.
Amérique latine Cartes Histoire.
Amérique latine.
Hispanoamerika

Form/genre:

Maps
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297391
Call No.: BIB 243718
Status: Available