MisReading America: scriptures and difference

by Wimbush, Vincent L.

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Title Statements

Full title :MisReading America : scriptures and difference / ed. by Vincent L. Wimbush ; with the assistance of Lalruatkima and Melissa Renee Reid.

Summary

"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.''"

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford Univ. Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:XII, 311 Seiten ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199975419, 0199975418, 9780199975426, 0199975426
oclc:ocn873405042
LC Classification:BL65.E75
Dewey Decimal:306.09

Subjects

Assimilation Assimilation (Sociologie) -- États-Unis Assimilation (Sociology) Assimilation (Sociology) -- United Stat… Aufsatzsammlung Bibellektüre États-Unis -- Relations interethniques Ethnic relations Ethnicité -- Aspect religieux Ethnicité -- États-Unis Ethnicity Ethnicity -- Religious aspects Ethnicity -- United States Geschichte Identification (Religion) Minorities -- Religious life Minorities -- Religious life -- United … Minorities -- Social conditions Minorities -- Social conditions. -- Uni… Nationale Minderheit