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Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden : Du Bois, King, Malcolm X, and Emancipatory Composition by Bradford T. Stull (1999, Hardcover)

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PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press

ISBN-100809322498

ISBN-139780809322497

eBay Product ID (ePID)1150304

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Number of Pages160 Pages

Publication NameAmid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden : Du Bois, King, Malcolm X, and Emancipatory Composition

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Politics, Composition & Creative Writing, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorBradford T. Stull

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight16.1 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.7 in

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LCCN98-051923

Reviews"As a book that brings rhetorical theory, nineteenth-century African American women writers, and feminist discourse together in one source, this research and writing is extremely valuable both for future scholarship and classroom use." — Joyce Irene Middleton , University of Rochester, "As a book that brings rhetorical theory, nineteenth-century African American women writers, and feminist discourse together in one source, this research and writing is extremely valuable both for future scholarship and classroom use." -- Joyce Irene Middleton , University of Rochester, "As a book that brings rhetorical theory, nineteenth-century African American women writers, and feminist discourse together in one source, this research and writing is extremely valuable both for future scholarship and classroom use." -Joyce Irene Middleton, University of Rochester

SynopsisWhom, or what, does composition--defined here as an intentional process of study, either oral or written--serve? Bradford T. Stull contends that composition would do well to articulate, in theory and practice, what could be called "emancipatory composition." He argues that emancipatory composition is radically theopolitical: it roots itself in the foundational theological and political language of the American experience while it subverts this language in order to emancipate the oppressed and, thereby, the oppressors. To articulate this vision, Stull looks to those who compose from an oppressed place, finding in the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X radical theopolitical practices that can serve as a model for emancipatory composition. While Stull acknowledges that there are many sites of oppression, he focuses on what Du Bois has called the problem of the twentieth century: the color line, positing that the unique and foundational nature of the color line provides a fecund place in which, from which, a theory and practice of emancipatory composition might be elucidated. By focusing on four key theopolitical tropes--The Fall, The Orient, Africa, and Eden--that inform the work of Du Bois, King, and Malcolm X, Stull discovers the ways in which these civil rights leaders root themselves in the vocabulary of the American experience in order to subvert it so that they might promote emancipation for African Americans, and thus all Americans. In drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, Kenneth Burke, Edward Said, Christopher Miller, Ernst Bloch, and others, Stull also locates this study within the larger cultural context. By reading Du Bois, King, and Malcolm X together in a way that they have never before been read, Stull presents a new vision of composition practice to the African American studies community and a reading of African American emancipatory composition to the rhetoric and composition community, thus extending the question of emancipatory composition into new territory., A study of emancipatory composition. The author argues that composition would do well to articulate it in theory and in practice, as it is rooted in the theological and political language of the American experience and subverts this language to emancipate the oppressed and, hence, the oppressors., Whom, or what, does compositiondefined here as an intentional process of study, either oral or writtenserve? Bradford T. Stull contends that composition would do well to articulate, in theory and practice, what could be called "emancipatory composition." He argues that emancipatory composition is radically theopolitical: it roots itself in the foundational theological and political language of the American experience while it subverts this language in order to emancipate the oppressed and, thereby, the oppressors.To articulate this vision, Stull looks to those who compose from an oppressed place, finding in the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X radical theopolitical practices that can serve as a model for emancipatory composition. While Stull acknowledges that there are many sites of oppression, he focuses on what Du Bois has called the problem of the twentieth century: the color line, positing that the unique and foundational nature of the color line provides a fecund place in which, from which, a theory and practice of emancipatory composition might be elucidated.By focusing on four key theopolitical tropesThe Fall, The Orient, Africa, and Edenthat inform the work of Du Bois, King, and Malcolm X, Stull discovers the ways in which these civil rights leaders root themselves in the vocabulary of the American experience in order to subvert it so that they might promote emancipation for African Americans, and thus all Americans.In drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, Kenneth Burke, Edward Said, Christopher Miller, Ernst Bloch, and others, Stull also locates this study within the larger cultural context. By reading Du Bois, King, and Malcolm X together in a way that they have never before been read, Stull presents a new vision of composition practice to the African American studies community and a reading of African American emancipatory composition to the rhetoric and composition community, thus extending the question of emancipatory composition into new territory."

LC Classification NumberE185.61.S918 1999