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“The darker side of the Renaissance: literacy territoriality, and colonization” by Walter D. Mignolo
“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.”
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See also:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jaf/summary/v119/119.474nayar.html
http://www.press.umich.edu/8739/darker_side_of_the_renaissance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mignolo
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(The) darker side of the Renaissance: literacy, territoriality, and colonization / Walter D. Mignolo. —Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
XXII, 426; 24cm
Bibliography: p. 385-413.
ISBN-0 472-08437-2
F1409.7 .M54 2001
R. 88324000
