Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs
Subtitle: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America (Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture)
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Txt)
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780195107708
Subjects: General; Language Arts & Disciplines; African Americans; African languages; English language; Foreign elements; Influence on English; Languages; United States; Language
First sentence: In the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, and perhaps all complex cultural networks and encounters, events involving literacies arise that incorporate resources with different histories and different relationships to spoken language within a single event, narrative, or object.