A Community Text Arises
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781572733961
Paperback|9781572733961
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A Community Text Arises emerges from an ethnographic study of literacy in three African-American churches. These data illuminate the ways that the primary model of a literate text is shaped and used in African-American churches. Chapter 1 examines how the African-American church has operated as a community within the larger African-American communities. Chapter 2 introduces, through ethnographic descriptions, the churches that the authors studies and Chapter 3 highlights the features of the major literacy event and text in African-American churches - the sermon. Through close analysis of individual sermons the author illustrates how the sermon functions as a community text. Chapter 4 focuses solely on the sermons of one minister to highlight rhetorical strategies that are used to create and main community identity. The analysis in chapters 3 and 4 provides a view of a text that calls into question traditionally held notions of text inside and outside the community. Therefore, chapter 5 deals with the implications of this study for how text is defined and the relation between oral and written texts.
| ISBN-13 | 9781572733961 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1572733969 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.75 x 0.50 x 8.75 In |
| List Price | $20.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 184 pages |
| Publisher | Hampton Press, Incorporated |
| Published On | 2002-03-31 |
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