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The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance

A Tradition of Race and Religion

Armondo R. Collins

In The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance: A Tradition of Race and Religion, Armondo R. Collins theorizes Black Nationalist rhetorical strategies as an avenue to better understanding African American communication practices. The author demonstrates how Black rhetors use writing about God to create a language that reflects African Americans’ shifting subjectivity within the American experience. This book highlights how the Black God trope and Black Nationalist religious rhetoric function as an embodied rhetoric. Collins also addresses how the Black God trope functions as a gendered critique of white western patriarchy, to demonstrate how an ideological position like womanism is voiced by authors using the Black God trope as a means of public address. Scholars of rhetoric, African American literature, and religious studies will find this book of particular interest.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 152 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66692-156-4 • Hardback • May 2023 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
Series: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric, Social Science / Black Studies (Global), Religion / General

Armondo R. Collins is assistant professor of African American literature, thought, and cultural studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The Black God Trope and Enthymematic Blackness

Chapter 2: Proto-Black Nationalism: Early Black Church Lore as Rhetorical Performance and Resistance

Chapter 3: A Message to the Blackman in America: Elijah Muhamad’s Influential Religious Rhetoric

Chapter 4: Clarence 13x’s Black God Ethos and the Rhetorical Challenge of the Five Percent

Chapter 5: The Black God Trope in the Novel: A Message From the Black Woman in America

Chapter 6: Alice Walker’s Womanist Black God Trope in The Color Purple

Chapter 7: The Black God Trope as Rhetorical Pedagogy

Bibliography

About the Author

"The Black God Trope is the apogee of rhetorical examinations regarding Black nationalism and religion, particularly how the divine is used as ethos, authority, and resistance. Armondo R. Collins incisively synthesizes centuries of Black rhetorical tradition in the United States - from early orators in the pulpit and at the lyceum to contemporary literary geniuses - as he concomitantly analyzes the nuances of such texts. This volume demonstrates not just the power of the divine as a rhetorical trope for resistance, but it also centers its dynamism as an epistemology for living - for community, for agency, and for survival. In the same way liberation theologists have contributed to a deeper, more reflexive understanding of religion, so too does Collins provide a vigorous and fresh mapping of Black nationalism for rhetorical studies."


— Jason Edward Black, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


“Collins has taken a very creative and helpful approach by examining the manifestation of the Black God trope in various kinds of documents (two jeremiads, a catechism, three novels, and three poems). The discussions of the ways Bambara, Morrison, and Walker explore a womanist theological perspective are exceedingly rich, as are the author’s explications of how these novelists make connections between Black women’s self-identity versus group identity.”


— Brenda E. Aghahowa, Chicago State University


The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance

A Tradition of Race and Religion

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Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • In The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance: A Tradition of Race and Religion, Armondo R. Collins theorizes Black Nationalist rhetorical strategies as an avenue to better understanding African American communication practices. The author demonstrates how Black rhetors use writing about God to create a language that reflects African Americans’ shifting subjectivity within the American experience. This book highlights how the Black God trope and Black Nationalist religious rhetoric function as an embodied rhetoric. Collins also addresses how the Black God trope functions as a gendered critique of white western patriarchy, to demonstrate how an ideological position like womanism is voiced by authors using the Black God trope as a means of public address. Scholars of rhetoric, African American literature, and religious studies will find this book of particular interest.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 152 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66692-156-4 • Hardback • May 2023 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
    Series: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
    Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric, Social Science / Black Studies (Global), Religion / General
Author
Author
  • Armondo R. Collins is assistant professor of African American literature, thought, and cultural studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Chapter 1: The Black God Trope and Enthymematic Blackness

    Chapter 2: Proto-Black Nationalism: Early Black Church Lore as Rhetorical Performance and Resistance

    Chapter 3: A Message to the Blackman in America: Elijah Muhamad’s Influential Religious Rhetoric

    Chapter 4: Clarence 13x’s Black God Ethos and the Rhetorical Challenge of the Five Percent

    Chapter 5: The Black God Trope in the Novel: A Message From the Black Woman in America

    Chapter 6: Alice Walker’s Womanist Black God Trope in The Color Purple

    Chapter 7: The Black God Trope as Rhetorical Pedagogy

    Bibliography

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • "The Black God Trope is the apogee of rhetorical examinations regarding Black nationalism and religion, particularly how the divine is used as ethos, authority, and resistance. Armondo R. Collins incisively synthesizes centuries of Black rhetorical tradition in the United States - from early orators in the pulpit and at the lyceum to contemporary literary geniuses - as he concomitantly analyzes the nuances of such texts. This volume demonstrates not just the power of the divine as a rhetorical trope for resistance, but it also centers its dynamism as an epistemology for living - for community, for agency, and for survival. In the same way liberation theologists have contributed to a deeper, more reflexive understanding of religion, so too does Collins provide a vigorous and fresh mapping of Black nationalism for rhetorical studies."


    — Jason Edward Black, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


    “Collins has taken a very creative and helpful approach by examining the manifestation of the Black God trope in various kinds of documents (two jeremiads, a catechism, three novels, and three poems). The discussions of the ways Bambara, Morrison, and Walker explore a womanist theological perspective are exceedingly rich, as are the author’s explications of how these novelists make connections between Black women’s self-identity versus group identity.”


    — Brenda E. Aghahowa, Chicago State University


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