Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations

by Elaine B. Richardson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415943876
• ISBN13: 9780415943871
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.8"