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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Blake Cecil A"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The African origins of rhetoric / / by Cecil Blake"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : Routledge, 2009"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-135-84058-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-282-15329-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612153297"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-87552-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (157 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"African studies"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"808.0096"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Rhetoric - Africa - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Criticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Postcolonialism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"National characteristics, African"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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."]
[null,null,null,"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"]