UID:
almafu_9961152677002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (157 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-84058-X
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1-282-15329-3
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9786612153297
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0-203-87552-4
Serie:
African studies
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-88387-3
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-99771-2
Sprache:
Englisch
