Mestiz Scripts, Digital Migrations, And The Territories Of Writing (New Directions In Latino American Cultures)

Mestiz Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz scripts challenge alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of "writing." Strategic weavings of Aztec and European inscription systems not only promote historically-grounded accounts of how recorded information is expressed across cultures, but also speak to emerging studies on "visualmultimodal" education. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz literacies advance "new" ways of reading and writing, applicable to diverse classrooms of the twenty-first century.