"A Creative Psalm of Brotherhood": The (De)Constructive Play in Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Autor/in	Gaipa, Mark
Titel	"A Creative Psalm of Brotherhood": The (De)Constructive Play in Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93 (2007) 3, S.279-307 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Figurative Language; Mass Media; Civil Rights; Context Effect; Writing (Composition); Social Change; Persuasive Discourse; Writing Processes; Political Power; Politics; Ethics; Printed Materials; Reader Text Relationship; Content Analysis; Rhetoric + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Massenmedien; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Schreibübung; Sozialer Wandel; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Politische Macht; Politik; Ethik; Inhaltsanalyse; Rhetorik
Abstract	Scholars have celebrated the spoken word in King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," but they have overlooked the significance of the Letter's writing. In this essay I closely read King's act of writing the Letter, along with the figures of speech he employs in it, and I show how both--by enacting the mass media's ability to cross contexts--are essential to King's political strategy of nonviolent direct action, as well as to the Letter's argument against segregation-- an argument that, before the fact, follows the steps we have since come to associate with deconstructive analysis. (Contains 71 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10