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9780199975426: MISREADING AMERICA P: Scriptures And Difference
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ISBN 10: 0199975426 ISBN 13: 9780199975426
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2013

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MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures--''scripturalizing''--as an analytical wedge. Scriptures here are understood as shorthand for complex social phenomena, practices, and dynamics. The authors take up scripturalizing as a window onto the self-understandings, politics, practices, and orientations of marginalized communities. These communities have in common the context that is the United States, with the challenges it holds for all regarding: pressure to conform to conventional-canonical forms of communication, representation, and embodiment (mimicry); opportunities to speak back to and confront and overturn conventionality (interruptions); and the need to experience ongoing meaningful and complex relationships (reorientation) to the centering politics, practices, and myths that define ''America.''

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Informazioni sull'autore

Vincent L. Wimbush is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures at Claremont Graduate University.

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Editore
Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199975426
ISBN 13 
9780199975426
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
326
Contatto del produttore
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