TY - GEN AU - Mignolo,Walter D. TI - The darker side of the Renaissance : literacy, territoriality, and colonization SN - 8489756473 U1 - 980.013 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - INDIGENAS DE AMÉRICA LATINA KW - HISTORIA KW - LEMB KW - RENACIMIENTO KW - ESPAÑA KW - CARTOGRAFÍA KW - LENGUAJE Y LENGUAS KW - AMÉRICA LATINA KW - ESCRITURA KW - HASTA 1600 KW - MAPAS KW - HISTORIOGRAFÍA N1 - Incluye índice: p. 415-423; Notas: p. 335-383; Incluye referencias bibliogáficas: p.385-413 N2 - The Darker Side of the Renaissance draws from literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory as it examines the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Charting the connections between writing, social organization, and political control, this broad and ambitious book argues that European forms of literacy were at the heart of New World colonization and examines both the process and the implications of conquest and destruction through language. Winner of the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for 1996, the book continues to challenge commonplace understandings of New World history and to stimulate new colonial and postcolonial scholarship ER -