Title The African origins of rhetoric / Cecil Blake.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 140 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	African studies
	African studies (Routledge (Firm))
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treaties, 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.
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Subject	Ptahhotep.
	Ptahhotep.
	Rhetoric -- Africa -- History.
	Rhetoric.
	Africa.
	History.
	Criticism.
	Criticism.
	Postcolonialism.
	Postcolonialism.
	National characteristics, African.
	National characteristics, African.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Blake, Cecil A. African origins of rhetoric. New York : Routledge, 2009 9780415997713 0415997712 (DLC) 2009003794 (OCoLC)237880590
ISBN	9780203875520 (electronic book)
	0203875524 (electronic book)
	9780415997713 (hardback)
	0415997712 (hardback)