Understanding African-American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations
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...
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A textbook for a course in communications that looks at the generally neglected rhetoric tradition of African-American speech and writing. Classical Egyptian origins, manifestation of orality, struggle and resistance, and future directions for research are among the topics. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good into the World32The Spiritual Essence of African American Rhetoric233African American Orality: Expanding Rhetoric434"Jesus Is a Rock": Spirituals as Lived Experience575The Use of Public Space as Cultural Communicator: How Museums Reconstruct and Reconnect Cultural Memory696The Word at Work: Ideological and Epistemological Dynamics in African American Rhetoric857The Politics of (In)visibility in African American Rhetorical Scholarship: A (Re)quest for an African Worldview998Afrocentricity as Metatheory: A Dialogic Exploration of Its Principles1159Africological Theory and Criticism: Reconceptualizing Communication Constructs13310Every Man Fights for His Freedom: The Rhetoric of African American Resistance in the Mid-Nineteenth Century15511"The Duty of the Civilized is to Civilize the Uncivilized": Tropes of Black Nationalism in the Messages of Five Percent Rappers17112Death Narratives from the Killing Fields: Narrative Criticism and the Case of Tupac Shakur18713Lauryn Hill as Lyricist and Womanist20914The Kink Factor: A Womanist Discourse Analysis of African American Mother/Daughter Perspectives on Negotiating Black Hair/Body Politics22315An Afrocentric Rhetorical Analysis of Johnnie Cochran's Closing Argument in the O.J. Simpson Trial24516Afrocentric Rhetoric Transcending Audiences and Contexts: A Case Study of Preacher and Politician Emanuel Cleaver II26317The Future of African American Rhetoric28518The Discourse of African American Women: A Case for Extended Paradigms293About the Contributors309Index315
