Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State

Informationen zum Autor Michael Stancliff is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Arizona State University. He teaches and researches the history of slavery and antislavery, African American rhetoric and literature, critical race theory, and writing pedagogy. He is author with Sharon Crowley of Critical Situations: A Rhetoric for Writing in Communities. Klappentext This book traces long and prolific career of prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. It explores her radical egalitarian vision in all its rich rhetorical and historic context and establishes the lasting relevance of that vision for civil rights and human rights workers today. Zusammenfassung This book traces long and prolific career of prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. It explores her radical egalitarian vision in all its rich rhetorical and historic context and establishes the lasting relevance of that vision for civil rights and human rights workers today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Composing Character: Cultural Sources of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy Chapter 2. Reconstruction and Black Republican Pedagogy Chapter 3. Temperance Pedagogy: Lessons of Character in a Drunken Economy Chapter 4. Black Ireland: The Political Economics of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy after Reconstruction Chapter 5. Not as a Mere Dependent: The Historic Mission of African American Women’s Rhetoric at the End of the Century Afterword

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• Authors: Michael Stancliff, Michael (Arizona State University Stancliff, Stancliff Micha, STANCLIFF MICHAEL
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2010
• EAN: 9780415997638
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99763-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Studies in American Popular Hi; Studies in American Popular History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Amerikanische Geschichte, Amerika, 1500 bis heute, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte