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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457781903321

Autore

Nunley Vorris

Titolo

Keepin' it hushed [[electronic resource] ] : the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric / / Vorris L. Nunley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8143-3645-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

African American life series

Disciplina

895.6/09

Soggetti

African Americans - Languages

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

English language - United States - Rhetoric

Popular culture - United States

Barbershops - United States

African Americans in literature

African Americans - Communication

Black English - United States

Literacy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beyond difference: mapping and theorizing hush harbor spatiality rhetoric and knowledge -- Hush harbors: spatiality, race, and not-so-public spheres -- Wingin' it: barbershops and the work of nommo in the novel -- Poetic hush harbors: barbershops as black paideias -- Barbers and customers as philosophers in memoir and drama -- Commodifying neoliberal blackness: faux hush harbor rhetoric in barbershop -- Hush harbor pedagogy: pathos-driven hearing and pedagogy -- A question of ethics? Hush harbor rhetoric and rationalities in a neoliberal age.