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Liberating Language [electronic resource]

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Title Liberating Language [electronic resource] : Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America / Shirley Wilson Logan.
Publisher Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Creation Date [2008]
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
English
Content introduction: "By the way, where did you learn to speak?" -- Free-floating literacy: early African American rhetorical traditions -- Private learners: self-education in rhetoric -- Mental feasts: literary and educational societies and lyceums -- Organs of propaganda: rhetorical education and the black press.
Extent 1 online resource (198 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2008
National Library system number 997010707745205171
MARC RECORDS
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