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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777983003321

Autore

Blake Cecil A

Titolo

The African origins of rhetoric [[electronic resource] /] / by Cecil Blake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-84058-X

1-282-15329-3

9786612153297

0-203-87552-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Collana

African studies

Disciplina

808.0096

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Africa - History

Criticism

Postcolonialism

National characteristics, African

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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