{"product_id":"9780190664701","title":"Scripturalectics : The Management of Meaning","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book Vincent Wimbush seeks to problematize what we call \"scriptures,\" a word first used to refer simply to \"things written,\" the registration of basic information. In the modern world the word came to be associated almost exclusively with the center- and power-defining \"sacred\" texts of \"world religions.\" Wimbush argues that this narrowing of the valence of the term was a decisive development for western culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis purpose is to reconsider the initially broad and politically charged use of the term: \"scriptures\" are excavated not merely as texts to be read but understood as discourse: as mimetic rituals and practices; as ideologically-charged orientations to and prescribed behaviors in the world; as structures of relationships and social formations; as forms of communication. Wimbush is naming and constructing a new transdisciplinary critical project, which uses the historical and modern experiences of the Black Atlantic as resources for framing, categorization, and analysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart as a touchstone, each chapter offers a close reading and analysis of a representative moment in the formation of the Black Atlantic, regarded as part of a history of modern human consciousness and conscientization. Such a history, he says, is reflected in the major turns in what he calls scripturalectics, part of the construction of the modern world, defined as efforts to manage or control knowledge and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49642371645688,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":372.09,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780190664701-1.jpg?v=1783578672","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780190664701","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}