We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Woman

by Shirley Wilson Logan

Book Overview

Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900.

Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era. She analyzes not only speeches but also editorials,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809321939
• ISBN13: 9780809321933
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"