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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450014703321

Autore

Sunnemark Fredrik

Titolo

Ring out freedom! [[electronic resource] ] : the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the civil rights movement / / Fredrik Sunnemark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612071515

1-282-07151-3

0-253-11081-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

323/.092

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

English language - United States - Discourse analysis

English language - United States - Rhetoric

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - History and criticism

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"There must be somebody to communicate..." -- A discourse of faith -- Western intellectualism and American ideals -- The problem of race -- Third World, Cold War, and Vietnam -- Radicalization.

Sommario/riassunto

Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than the civil rights movement's most                visible figure, he was its voice. This book describes what went into the creation of                that voice. It explores how King used words to define a movement. From a place                situated between two cultures of American society, King shaped the language that                gave the movement its identity and meaning. Fredrik Sunnemark shows how                materialistic, idealistic, and religious ways of explaining the world coexisted in                King's speeches and writings. He poi