{"product_id":"misreading-america-scriptures-and-difference-9780199975419","title":"MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vincent L. Wimbush | Lalruatkima | Melissa Renee Reid\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMisReading America \u003c\/em\u003epresents 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: pressure to 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 centering politics, practices, and myths that define ''America.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891350126743,"sku":"9780199975419","price":14651.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199975419.webp?v=1781183339","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/misreading-america-scriptures-and-difference-9780199975419","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}