Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900. Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era. She analyzes not only speeches but also editorials, essays, and letters. Logan first focuses on the prophetic oratory of Maria Stewart, the first American-born black woman to speak publicly....
Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the ...
"Owoman, woman upon you I call; for upon your exertions almost entirely depends whether the rising generation shall be any thing more than we have been or not.Owoman, woman your example is powerful, your influence great."Maria W. Stewart, "An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston" (1832)
Herein the only collection of speeches by nineteenth-century African-American womenis the battle of words these brave women waged to address the social ills of their century. While there have been some scattered references to the unique...
"Owoman, woman upon you I call; for upon your exertions almost entirely depends whether the rising generation shall be any thing more than...
Shirley Wilson Logan Wayne H. Slater Robert Coogan
Addresses how university writing programs were first established and what challenges they faced, where writing programs were housed and who administered them, how the language backgrounds of composition students inform the way writing is taught, and the ways in which current writing technologies create new digital environments.
Addresses how university writing programs were first established and what challenges they faced, where writing programs were housed and who administer...
