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UNINA9910454699503321 |
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Autore |
Blake Cecil A |
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Titolo |
The African origins of rhetoric [[electronic resource] /] / by Cecil Blake |
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New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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1-135-84058-X |
1-282-15329-3 |
9786612153297 |
0-203-87552-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (157 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rhetoric - Africa - History |
Criticism |
Postcolonialism |
National characteristics, African |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 -- Epilogue -- Appendices. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises 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. Blake offers a thorough examination of Ptah-hotep and core African ethical principles (Maat) and engages rhetorical scholarship within the wider discourse of African development. In so doing, he establishes a direct relationship between rhetoric and development studies in non-western societies and highlights the prospect for applying |
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