The African origins of rhetoric
By: by Cecil Blake.
Series: African studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780415997713
Subjects: Ptahhotep; Rhetoric -- Africa -- History; Criticism; Postcolonialism; National characteristics, African
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: "The blackness without and the blackness within": the rhetorical construction of the African; title: Rhetorical theory as background and context; title: Africa in rhetorical scholarship; title: Maat: the ethical grounding of the rhetoric of Ptah-hotep; title: The rhetoric of Ptah-hotep; title: From darkness to light; title: Paradigmatic framework: postcolonial theory; title: Epilogue; title: Appendices.