Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance

by Abraham Acosta

Book Overview

Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of "illiteracy" as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. "Illiteracy," Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what cannot be subsumed within prevailing modes of reading, such as the opposition between writing and orality, that have frequently been deployed to distinguish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082325710X
• ISBN13: 9780823257102
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: American Literatures Initiative
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"