George W. Bush at Goree Island: American Slavery and the Rhetoric of Redemption

Autor/in	Medhurst, Martin J.
Titel	George W. Bush at Goree Island: American Slavery and the Rhetoric of Redemption
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 96 (2010) 3, S.257-277 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Audiences; Slavery; Foreign Countries; Presidents; Speeches; Rhetoric; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); History; Economic Development; Diseases + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Spectator; Zuschauer; Sklaverei; Ausland; President; Präsident; Rhetorik; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Disease; Krankheit
Abstract	On July 8, 2003, at Goree Island, Senegal, George W. Bush delivered the most important speech on American slavery since Abraham Lincoln. As an example of rhetorical artistry, the speech is a masterpiece, putting the brutality of slavery into historical, political, and theological perspective. Although the speech had deliberative effects--it grew out of, and contributed to, the Millennium Challenge as well as the administration's African AIDS initiative--it was primarily an epideictic speech that envisioned Providential history as its audience. By adopting the God of history as audience, Bush was able to confess the nation's original sin and to begin to make amends by directing billions of dollars to African development as well as treatment of AIDS and malaria. While largely successful with Africans, the speech left many African Americans both puzzled and angry. The Bush administration could have built on the initial success of the Goree Island speech by extending the internal logic of the address to the material conditions of African Americans, but it did not. (Contains 61 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10