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

• 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.

• "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. 

Ämnesord

Indians  -- Historiography. (LCSH)

Renaissance  -- Spain. (LCSH)

Language and history  -- Latin America. (LCSH)

Indians  -- Languages -- Writing. (LCSH)

Writing  -- History. (LCSH)

Cartography  -- Spain -- History. (LCSH)

Indiens d'Amérique  -- Historiographie. (Vedettes-matière)

Architecture de la Renaissance  -- Espagne. (Vedettes-matière)

Langage et histoire  -- Amérique latine. (Vedettes-matière)

Langues indiennes d'Amérique  -- Écriture. (Vedettes-matière)

Écriture  -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)

Cartographie  -- Espagne -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)

Kartographie.  (swd)

Geschichtsschreibung.  (swd)

Kolonisation.  (swd)

Sprachphilosophie.  (swd)

Latin America  -- Historiography. (LCSH)

Latin America  -- History -- To 1600. (LCSH)

Latin America  -- Maps -- History. (LCSH)

Amérique latine  -- Historiographie. (Vedettes-matière)

Amérique latine  -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1600. (Vedettes-matière)

Amérique latine  -- Histoire -- Cartes. (Vedettes-matière)

Klassifikation

F1409.7 (LCC)

980/.013 (DDC)

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