Full Description
The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit performs a close textual analysis of five womanist sermons to answer the question: how does womanist preaching attempt to transform/adapt the tenets of womanist thought to make it rhetorically viable in the church? And what is gained and lost in this? The sermons come from five women who are considered exemplars of womanist preaching: Elaine M. Flake, Gina M. Stewart, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Melva L. Sampson, and Claudette A. Copeland. This book takes the first step in womanist scholarship to dissect what is rhetorically going on in womanist preaching, to categorize womanist sermons under the four tenets of womanist preaching, and to then create four rhetorical models that reflect the rhetorical attributes of the four different categories or phrased tenets that Stacey Floyd-Thomas uses to represent Alice Walker's "womanist" definition.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Emergence of Womanist Preaching
Chapter Two: Radical Subjectivity
Chapter Three: Traditional Communalism
Chapter Four: Redemptive Self-Love
Chapter Five: Critical Engagement
Chapter Six: Conclusions about Womanist Preaching & Womanist Rhetoric
Appendix A: Elaine M. Flake's sermon, "The Power of Enough"
Appendix B: Gina M. Stewart's sermon, "Enough is Enough!"
Appendix C: Cheryl Kirk-Duggan's sermon, "Women of the Cloth"
Appendix D: Melva L. Sampson's sermon, "Hell No!"
Appendix E: Claudette A. Copeland's sermon, "What Shall We Do For Our Sister?"
Appendix F: Four Rhetorical Models
Bibliography
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