The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai

Eddah Mbula Mutua; Alberto González; Anke Wolbert

doi:10.5771/9781498571135

Zusammenfassung

This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and social justice and who inspired action to protect our natural habitats. This collection explores the various strategies Maathai employed in her speeches to create memorable images and arguments for audiences in Kenya and around the world. Specifically, authors examine Maathai's use of storytelling, her creative use of metaphor and local cultural knowledge, and her use of sharp social-political analysis. Authors approach Maathai's rhetoric from both African and Western ways of knowing.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-7112-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-7113-5
Verlag: Lexington, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 221
Produkttyp: Sammelband

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
3. Introduction Kein Zugriff
1. 1 Bantu Sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai’s Peacebuilding Rhetoric Kein Zugriff
2. 2 Envisioning Peace and Reconciliation for Kenya: Wangari Maathai’s 2008 PeaceTent Opening Ceremony Address Kein Zugriff
3. 3 The Rhetorical Potency of Storytelling: The Narrative Roleof the Hummingbird in the Green Belt Movement Kein Zugriff
4. 4 Heroic Transverser: A Rhetorical Analysis of Representations of Wangari Maathai in Kenyan Press Kein Zugriff
5. 5 Wangari Maathai’s Rhetorical Vision: Empowerment through Education Kein Zugriff
6. 6 The Green Belt Movementand its Rhetoric of AfricanDevelopment Communication Kein Zugriff
1. 7 The Rhetorical Significance of Maathai’s Environmental Advocacy to Critical Intercultural Communication and Black Feminisms Kein Zugriff
2. 8 Wangari Maathai and Mottainai: Gifting “Cultural Appropriation”with Cultural Empowerment Kein Zugriff
3. 9 Daughter of the Soil: Wangari Maathai’s Rhetorical Vision of Environmental Justice and Reform Kein Zugriff
4. 10 Growing the Next Generation: The Sustainability of Wangari Maathai’s Rhetoric of Environmentalism Kein Zugriff
5. 11 Planting the Future: The Spiritual Legacy of Wangari Maathai Kein Zugriff
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 203 - 214
About the Editors Kein Zugriff Seiten 215 - 216
About the Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 217 - 221