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Overview"Whom, 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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bradford T. StullPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.456kg ISBN: 9780809322497ISBN 10: 0809322498 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 30 November 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews<p> 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 <br> Author InformationBradford T. Stull is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Communications at Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire. He is the author of Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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