Ironic Openings: The Interpretive Challenge of the "Black Manifesto"

Autor/in	Parker, Maegan
Titel	Ironic Openings: The Interpretive Challenge of the "Black Manifesto"
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94 (2008) 3, S.320-342 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	Rhetoric; Rhetorical Invention; Rhetorical Theory; Figurative Language; Tragedy; Torts; International Law; Violence; Speeches; Self Determination; Black Studies; African American History; Literary Criticism; Intellectual History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rhetorik; Tragik; Law of nations; Völkerrecht; Gewalt; Selbstbestimmung; Literaturkritik; Geistesgeschichte
Abstract	For generations, critics have dismissed James Forman's "Black Manifesto" as a rhetorical failure. Such judgments tend to focus on the prophetic and retributive registers of the speech and fail to account for the full range of its ironic structuration. By examining the complex interchange of prophetic, retributive, and tragic registers through which the "Manifesto" is constructed, we can more fully appreciate how Forman created a space for his auditors to reflect and redirect the vengeful and violent sociohistorical drama seemingly otherwise implied. At the same time, it helps to explain why some black auditors embraced the leadership role Forman directed them to assume, while many whites reviled the supporting role to which they were consigned. Interpreting the speech in terms of the interplay of its multiple ironic registers invites us to focus attention on the ways in which ironic protest rhetoric operates in dialogue, holding both the ironist and the audience accountable for the productivity of their encounter. (Contains 66 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10