Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs
Subtitle: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America (Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 2, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195107692
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.