The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance
A Tradition of Race and Religion
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2023
154 pages
978-1-6669-2157-1 (ISBN)
Description
In The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance: A Tradition of Race and Religion, Armondo R. Collins theorizes Black Nationalist rhetorical strategies as an avenue to better understanding African American communication practices. The author demonstrates how Black rhetors use writing about God to create a language that reflects African Americans' shifting subjectivity within the American experience. This book highlights how the Black God trope and Black Nationalist religious rhetoric function as an embodied rhetoric. Collins also addresses how the Black God trope functions as a gendered critique of white western patriarchy, to demonstrate how an ideological position like womanism is voiced by authors using the Black God trope as a means of public address. Scholars of rhetoric, African American literature, and religious studies will find this book of particular interest.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-2157-1 (9781666921571)
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05/2023
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Person
Armondo R. Collins is assistant professor of African American literature, thought, and cultural studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Black God Trope and Enthymematic Blackness
Chapter 2: Proto-Black Nationalism: Early Black Church Lore as Rhetorical Performance and Resistance
Chapter 3: A Message to the Blackman in America: Elijah Muhamad's Influential Religious Rhetoric
Chapter 4: Clarence 13x's Black God Ethos and the Rhetorical Challenge of the Five Percent
Chapter 5: The Black God Trope in the Novel: A Message From the Black Woman in America
Chapter 6: Alice Walker's Womanist Black God Trope in The Color Purple
Chapter 7: The Black God Trope as Rhetorical Pedagogy
Bibliography
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Black God Trope and Enthymematic Blackness
Chapter 2: Proto-Black Nationalism: Early Black Church Lore as Rhetorical Performance and Resistance
Chapter 3: A Message to the Blackman in America: Elijah Muhamad's Influential Religious Rhetoric
Chapter 4: Clarence 13x's Black God Ethos and the Rhetorical Challenge of the Five Percent
Chapter 5: The Black God Trope in the Novel: A Message From the Black Woman in America
Chapter 6: Alice Walker's Womanist Black God Trope in The Color Purple
Chapter 7: The Black God Trope as Rhetorical Pedagogy
Bibliography
About the Author
