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

• Autore: Blake Cecil A
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.0096
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric - Africa - History; Criticism; Postcolonialism; National characteristics, African
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The African origins of rhetoric
• ISBN: 1-135-84058-X; 1-282-15329-3; 9786612153297; 0-203-87552-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777983003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African studies (Routledge (Firm))