The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance
A Tradition of Race and Religion- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2023
Summary
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.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2023
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-6669-2156-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-6669-2157-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 140
- Product type
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
- Proto–Black Nationalism No access Pages 19 - 28
- Message to the Blackman in America No access Pages 29 - 52
- Clarence 13x’s Black God Ethos and the Rhetorical Challenge of the Five Percenters No access Pages 53 - 78
- The Black God Trope in the Novel No access Pages 79 - 102
- Alice Walker’s Womanist Black God Trope in The Color Purple No access Pages 103 - 116
- The Black God Trope as Rhetorical Pedagogy No access Pages 117 - 124
- Bibliography No access Pages 125 - 130
- Index No access Pages 131 - 138
- About the Author No access Pages 139 - 140





