MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199975426)

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.''

Author: Vincent L. Wimbush
ISBN-10: 0199975426
ISBN-13: 9780199975426
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2013
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2014