Signs of Diaspora / Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America.

This text looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It demonstrates that African-Americans, while utilizing the conventions and canons of Euro-America, drew on knowledge of their own to make oppositional meanings.

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Main Author: Gundaker, Grey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.
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