comparative Lit

Lecture 1 Notes:

Essential Question -
how does our
understanding of
learn all.
literacy change when we of

histories writings?
of

focus on relating reading and

writing to worldview
our education system has a narrow view

READING WRITING
I / ↳

silent
indiv linear ABC

lit. can encompast so much more than alphabetic lit

I can expand world view

Western/USA
-
Mesopotamia/Phoenical Alphabetic -
Script (Greecel
cuneiform Romel Europe

the linear rich

history of
approach ignores writing/print
in china block
-

printing
-

positions Americas as latecomers to

writing

reason they been incorperated

haven't to Americas is
be
they break wilinearity of alph. Script categorical
thinking

"the contentof
writing is speech"- butit's separate
·

a-phonetic
is inferior
body the
to
mind

spoken word is inferior to written word

 transition from one worldview to another

Mesoamerican
Literacy
↳ is performative
4 b
body of the
community
↳ritual in some cases

·
some components
-

painted books / inspired of equation

truth I half
performed as
song/freestyle
-

dance instruments

separation ofletters, phonemes from their sounds (

original meanings separation ofthe body from the mind
·
no separation exists in Mesoamerican worldview

belonging sacred time and space

to a
intimately
are
connected spirituals celestial
to forms
belonging
of

the gods, cleaning, singing, speaches

appreciate

IDEAS:Emoji, music videos, memes, graphic lit.