Voice of Deliverance - Language of Martin Luther King, Jr.and Its Sources

Informationen zum Autor Keith Miller is a professor of English at Arizona State University in Tempe. Klappentext What made the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.s so inspiring to all people and enabled blacks and whites to move in harmony to action and commitment? Keith Miller shows how the skillful borrowing and blending of both black and white written traditions was the key to King's effectiveness. Zusammenfassung Martin Luther King Jr's words defined! mobilized and embodied much of the American civil rights movement! but disclosures about his unattributed appropriations in his PhD dissertation have questioned whether his voice was truly his own. This study traces the intellectual roots of his language.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Miller, Keith D Miller, Keith D. Miller
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.1998
• EAN: 9780820320137
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2013-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Biografien: allgemein, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies