Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance - A Tradition of Race and Religion

In this book, 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Armondo R. Collins is assistant professor of African American literature, thought, and cultural studies at California Polytechnic.

Summary

In this book, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Armondo R. Collins
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781666921564
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-156-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; RELIGION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Religion & beliefs, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Religion and beliefs, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Black & Asian Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Relating to African American / Black American people