Keepin' it hushed : the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric / Vorris L. Nunley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nunley, Vorris.

Series:

African American life series.

African American life series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Languages.

African Americans.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

English language--United States--Rhetoric.

English language.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Barbershops--United States.

Barbershops.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans--Communication.

Black English--United States.

Black English.

Literacy--United States.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Keeping it hushed

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.

Contents:

Beyond difference: mapping and theorizing hush harbor spatiality rhetoric and knowledge

Hush harbors: spatiality, race, and not-so-public spheres

Wingin' it: barbershops and the work of nommo in the novel

Poetic hush harbors: barbershops as black paideias

Barbers and customers as philosophers in memoir and drama

Commodifying neoliberal blackness: faux hush harbor rhetoric in barbershop

Hush harbor pedagogy: pathos-driven hearing and pedagogy

A question of ethics? Hush harbor rhetoric and rationalities in a neoliberal age.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814336458

0814336450

OCLC:

755621698