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(Dis) Forming the American Canon : African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular.
Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourses claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that thr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourses claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to "reason" before his original introduction to Western culturea literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-331) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816684274 0816684278 |