Misreading America
Vincent L Wimbush
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-...
Sinopsis
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: pressureto 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 centeringpolitics, practices, and myths that define 'America.'