The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai (eBook, ePUB)

Planting the Future
Redaktion: Mutua, Eddah Mbula; Wolbert, Anke; González, Alberto

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and social justice and who inspired action to protect our natural habitats. This collection explores the various strategies Maathai employed in her speeches to create memorable images and arguments for audiences in Kenya and around the world. Specifically, authors examine Maathai's use of storytelling, her creative use of metaphor and local cultural knowledge, and her use of sharp social-political analysis. Authors approach Maathai's rhetoric from both African and Western ways of knowing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498571135
• Artikelnr.: 56800050

Autorenporträt

Eddah M. Mutua is professor of intercultural communication at St. Cloud State University. Alberto González is distinguished university professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. Anke Wolbert is lecturer in the School of Communication, Media, and Theatre Arts at Eastern Michigan University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Wangari Maathai and Social Justice Advocacy
Alberto González, Eddah M. Mutua, and Anke Wolbert Part I: Africa and the
Rhetoric of the Green Belt Movement Chapter One: Bantu Sociolinguistics in
Wangari Maathai's Peacebuilding Rhetoric Kundai V. Chirindo Chapter Two:
Envisioning Peace and Reconciliation for Kenya: Wangari Maathai's 2008
Peace Tent Opening Ceremony Address Anke Wolbert Chapter Three: The
Rhetorical Potency of Storytelling: The Narrative Role of the Hummingbird
in the Green Belt Movement Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey Chapter Four:
Heroic Transverser: A Rhetorical Analysis of Representations of Wangari
Maathai Wanjiru G. Mbure Chapter Five: Wangari Maathai's Rhetorical Vision:
Empowerment through Education Ahmet Atay Chapter Six: The Green Belt
Movement and Rhetoric of African Development Communication Stella-Monica
Mpande and Cleophas Tauri Muneri Part II: Planting the Future: Sustaining
Agency in and beyond the Green Belt Movement Chapter Seven: The Rhetorical
Significance of Maathai's Environmental Advocacy to Critical Intercultural
Communication and Black Feminisms Rachel Alicia Griffin and Gloria Nziba
Pindi Chapter Eight: Wangari Maathai and Mottainai: Gifting "Cultural
Appropriation" with Cultural Empowerment Etsuko Kinefuchi Chapter Nine:
Daughter of the Soil: Wangari Maathai's Rhetorical Vision of Environmental
Justice and Reform Reynaldo Anderson and D.L. Stephenson Chapter Ten:
Growing the Next Generation: The Sustainability of Wangari Maathai's
Rhetoric of Environmentalism Ellen W. Gorsevski Chapter Eleven: Planting
the Future: The Spiritual Legacy of Wangari Maathai Eddah M. Mutua and
Susan M. Kilonzo References Index About the Editors About the Contributors