Malcolm X : inventing radical judgment / Robert E. Terrill
- Bib ID:
- 3309422
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Terrill, Robert E
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- Description:
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- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2004
- xi, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0870137301
- Series:
- Rhetoric and public affairs series
- Summary:
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"Malcolm X, like any orator, did not fashion his discourse in a vacuum but worked within and modified modes fashioned by his predecessors. Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment begins by exploring the interpretive strategies presented in key texts from the history of African American protest, establishing a spectrum against which Malcolm's oratory can be assessed. Then the texts of speeches that Malcolm delivered while he was a minister for the Nation of Islam and the texts of speeches and statements he made after he left the Nation are analyzed carefully to discern the strategies of interpretation and judgment that he enacted and fostered in his audiences. Finally, this radical judgment, presented in and through Malcolm's public discourse, is recontextualized by using three disparate theoretical approaches.
The purpose of this triangulation is not to contain the rhetoric of Malcolm X within the limitations of these vocabularies, but rather to show that the changing potential of Malcolm's rhetoric lies, in part, in its iconoclastic refusal to be constrained by definitive boundaries."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Preface i
- Chapter One: Malcolm's Medium 1
- Meeting Malcolm 4
- Malcolm's Words 8
- Malcolm's Audience 12
- Malcolm Studies 17
- Studying Malcolm 24
- Conclusion 37
- Chapter Two: Prophetic Precedence 49
- Frederick Douglass: African-American Jeremiah 53
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Nationalist Prophet 66
- David Walker: Apocalyptic Appeal 79
- Nat Turner: Black Messiah 94
- Chapter Three: The Limits of Prophecy 118
- Marcus Garvey 121
- Noble Drew Ali 130
- The Nation of Islam 137
- Black Man's History 142
- Ronald Stokes 164
- Michigan State 167
- Limits of Prophecy 179
- Chapter Four: Radical Judgment 203
- The Split and The March 206
- The Chickens Coming Home to Roost 216
- The Ballot or the Bullet 222
- Letters from Mecca 241
- Return and Interlude 248
- The Final Speech 261
- Emancipatory Interpretation 276
- Chapter Five: Context and Assessment 294
- The NOI after Malcolm X 295
- Triangulation 301
- Summary and Implications 337
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography 365
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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