MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199975418 ISBN 13 : 9780199975419

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2013

Synopsis

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.''

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199975418
• ISBN 13: 9780199975419
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Wimbush Vincent L., Reid Melissa Renee
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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