{"product_id":"misreading-america","title":"MisReading America","description":"\u003cp\u003eMisReading 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: 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.''\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vincent L. Wimbush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43577555517501,"sku":"9780199975419","price":428.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/misreading-america","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}