Reading the Illegible Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes

 
Reading the Illegible Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes
Free Download Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes by Laura Leon Llerena
English | January 10, 2023 | ISBN: 081654753X | 264 pages | EPUB | 3.20 Mb
Reading the Illegible examines the history of alphabetic writing in early colonial Peru, deconstructing the conventional notion of literacy as a weapon of the colonizer. This book develops the concept of legibility, which allows for an in-depth analysis of coexisting Andean and non-Native media. The book discusses the stories surrounding the creation of the Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1598-1608), the only surviving book-length text written by Indigenous people in Quechua in the early colonial period. The manuscript has been deemed "untranslatable in all the usual senses," but scholar Laura Leon Llerena argues that it offers an important window into the meaning of legibility.


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Looking for Leroy Illegible Black Masculinities

 
Looking for Leroy Illegible Black Masculinities
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English | ISBN: 0814758363 | 2013 | 224 pages | EPUB | 261 KB
Mark Anthony Neal's Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most "legible" black male bodies are often rendered as criminal, bodies in need of policing and containment. Ironically, Neal argues, this sort of legibility brings welcome relief to white America, providing easily identifiable images of black men in an era defined by shifts in racial, sexual, and gendered identities.


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