Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden: Du Bois, King, Malcolm X, and Emancipatory Composition

by Bradford T. Stull and Associate Professor Bradford T. Stull

Whom, or what, does composition--defined here as an intentional process of study, either oral or written--serve? Bradford T. Stull contends that composition would do well to articulate, in theory and practice, what could be called "emancipatory composition." He argues that emancipatory composition is radically theopolitical: it roots itself in the foundational theological and political language of the American experience while it subverts this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322498
• ISBN13: 9780809322497
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"