The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization

by Walter D. Mignolo

Book Overview

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize."The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, geography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World.Walter D. Mignolo locates the privileging of European forms of literacy at the heart of New World colonization. He examines how alphabetic writing is linked with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047210327X
• ISBN13: 9780472103270
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"