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Autore: | Sunnemark Fredrik |
Titolo: | Ring out freedom! [[electronic resource] ] : the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the civil rights movement / / Fredrik Sunnemark |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323/.092 |
Soggetto topico: | Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
English language - United States - Discourse analysis | |
English language - United States - Rhetoric | |
Speeches, addresses, etc., American - History and criticism | |
Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century | |
African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | "There must be somebody to communicate..." -- A discourse of faith -- Western intellectualism and American ideals -- The problem of race -- Third World, Cold War, and Vietnam -- Radicalization. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than the civil rights movement's most visible figure, he was its voice. This book describes what went into the creation of that voice. It explores how King used words to define a movement. From a place situated between two cultures of American society, King shaped the language that gave the movement its identity and meaning. Fredrik Sunnemark shows how materialistic, idealistic, and religious ways of explaining the world coexisted in King's speeches and writings. He poi |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ring out freedom |
ISBN: | 9786612071515 |
1-282-07151-3 | |
0-253-11081-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910783354703321 |
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