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9780415943864

Understanding African-American Rhetoric Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations

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  • ISBN-13: 9780415943864
  • ISBN: 0415943868
  • Publication Date: 2003
  • Publisher: Routledge

AUTHOR

Jackson, Ronald L., Richardson, Elaine B.

SUMMARY

This is an extraordinarily well-balanced collection of essays focused on varied expressions of African American Rhetoric; it also is a critical antidote to a preoccupation with Western Rhetoric as the arbiter of what counts for effective rhetoric. Rather than impose Western terminology on African and African American rhetoric, the essays in this volume seek to illumine rhetoric from within its own cultural expression, thereby creating an understanding grounded in the culture's values. The consequence is a richly detailed and well-researched set of essays. The contribution of African American rhetoric can no longer be rendered invisible through neglect of its tradition. The essays in this volume neither seek to displace Western Rhetoric, nor function as an uncritical paen to Afrocentricity and Africology. This volume is both timely and essential; timely in advancing a better understanding of the richly textured history that is expressed through African American discourse, and essential as a counterpoint to the hegemonic influence of Greek and Roman rhetoric as the origin of rhetorical theory and practice. Written in the spirit of a critical rhetoric, this collection eschews traditional focus on public address and instead offers a rich array of texts, in musical and other forms, that address publics.Jackson, Ronald L. is the author of 'Understanding African-American Rhetoric Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations', published 2003 under ISBN 9780415943864 and ISBN 0415943868.

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