The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization

Description

Written over the scope of 20 years of research, Mignolo argues that European colonizers used writing technologies (like the alphabet) as a weapon of war in Mesoamerica, with subsequent political and cultural projects in the Enlightenment serving to reinforce literacy-based class divisions as an extension of European political power.

Creator

Mignolo, Walter

Publisher

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2012.

Contributor

Ruiz, Elena

Language

English

Type

Book
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