The African origins of rhetoric /

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Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treaties, Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness metaphor"--The rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blake, Cecil A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Colección:African studies (Routledge (Firm))
Temas:
Ptahhotep.
Ptahhotep
Rhetoric > Africa > History.
Criticism.
Postcolonialism.
National characteristics, African.
Rhétorique > Afrique > Histoire.
Critique.
Postcolonialisme.
Africains.
postcolonialism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Criticism
National characteristics, African
Postcolonialism
Rhetoric
Africa
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • "The blackness without and the blackness within": the rhetorical construction of the African
  • Rhetorical theory as background and context
  • Africa in rhetorical scholarship
  • Maat: the ethical grounding of the rhetoric of Ptah-hotep
  • The rhetoric of Ptah-hotep
  • From darkness to light
  • Paradigmatic framework: postcolonial theory.

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