The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance

Armondo R. Collins

doi:10.5771/9781666921571

The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance

A Tradition of Race and Religion

1. Edition 2023

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ISBN print: 978-1-6669-2156-4
ISBN online: 978-1-6669-2157-1
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Abstract

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.

Schlagworte

Literary Theory Black Church African American Literature Black Studies Rhetoric and Composition

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Preface
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
1–18 Introduction 1–18
19–28 Proto–Black Nationalism 19–28
29–52 Message to the Blackman in America 29–52
53–78 Clarence 13x’s Black God Ethos and the Rhetorical Challenge of the Five Percenters‌‌ 53–78
79–102 The Black God Trope in the Novel 79–102
103–116 Alice Walker’s Womanist Black God Trope in The Color Purple 103–116
117–124 The Black God Trope as Rhetorical Pedagogy 117–124
125–130 Bibliography 125–130
131–138 Index 131–138
139–140 About the Author 139–140

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