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Summerville, Raymond

 
9781496852489: Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN 10: 1496852486 ISBN 13: 9781496852489
Casa editrice: University Press of Mississippi, 2024

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In Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, author Raymond Summerville explores how proverbs and proverbial language played a significant role in the long civil rights era. Proverbs have been used throughout history to share and disseminate brief, powerful statements of truth and philosophical insight. Oftentimes, these sayings have helped unite people in struggles for social justice, serving as rallying cries for just causes. During the civil rights era, proverbs allowed leaders to craft powerful and evocative messages. These statements needed to be made implicitly, as explicit messages were often met with retaliation and even violence.

Looking at the autobiographies, biographies, speeches, diaries, letters, and critical texts of Charles W. Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Bob Dylan, Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael, and Septima Clark, the volume analyzes how these figures employed proverbs in support of social justice causes and in civil rights struggles. Summerville argues that these individuals generated enough print material embedded with proverbs and proverbial language that they should be considered proverb masters. With chapters dedicated to each figure, Summerville reveals their adept uses of this powerful linguistic tool.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Raymond Summerville is professor of English at Fayetteville State University. He has published in Proverbium, the Journal of Folklore and Education, and other publications. Patricia A. Turner is professor of African American and African studies and vice provost of undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture and Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.

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Editore
University Press of Mississippi
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1496852486
ISBN 13 
9781496852489
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
238
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