Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
"I Won't Tell Your Secrets": Appropriation and Black Women's Self-WritingBitter Black Women: An Impetus for Healing; Practices, Processes, and Proofs: A Curriculum for Healing; Restoring the Centrality of Faith; Restoring the Centrality of Family; Resolving to Exercise Resilience; Recognizing and Seizing Positive Opportunities; Assessment; 6. With Vision and Voice: Black Women's Rhetorical Healing in Everyday Use; On Templates, Construction, and Tracking: Putting Campaigns to Use; On Ideologies, Vision, and Interrogation: Putting Pedagogies to Use.
He Loves You Still: Intimacy, Kinship, and the Promise of AcceptanceTransformation: A Curriculum for Healing; Renewing the Mind by Releasing the Past and Rejecting the Enemy's Plan; Restoration through Revising Behaviors and Restoring Relationships; Assessment; 5. Take Your Place: The Rhetoric of Return in Tyler Perry's Films; Reading Appropriation: Narrative as Action; The Precarious Space of the Black Urban Theatre; Characters in Someone Else's Story: Subjectivity and Black Women's Film; The Regressing Family and Home Place: A Call to Healing.
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Life Class: An Introduction; In Plain Sight: Why Healing? Why Rhetoric? Why Now?; 1. Are You Sure You Want to Be Well?: Healing and the Situation of Black Women's Pain; The Balm of Memory: Literature and Language as a Domain for Healing; Talking and Reading Cures: Renaissance and the Situation of Black Women's Pain; Independent Study: Reeducation as Remedy; Black Women's Discourses as a Learning Cure; 2. I Need You to Survive: Theorizing Rhetorical Healing; Consider the Call: On Worldview and Interpretation.
Question the Crisis: On Invention and Institutional PoliticsIdentify the Yield: On Intervention and Application; Determine the Fit: On Consciousness and Quality of Life; On Competence and Consequence: Assessing Rhetorical Healing; 3. I'll Teach You to See Again: The Rhetoric of Revision in Iyanla Vanzant's Self-Help Franchise; Reading Revision: Narratives and Textbooks as a Form of Pedagogical Action; Reinvention: Legacies of Self-Education and Intellectual Resistance; Fighting Words: A Crisis of Misinformation; Miseducation as a Call for Healing; Revision: A Curriculum for Healing.
Rereading the Past through Self-Examination and InterpretationRevising One's Concept of Self through Alteration and Articulation; Resuming One's Intended Life Path through Action or Evolution; Assessment; 4. Come Ye Disconsolate: The Rhetoric of Transformation in T.D. Jakes's Women's Ministry; Reading Transformation: Preaching as Action; Individuals and the Nation: The Influence of the African American Church; "Backbones" and the Background: Women in the African American Church; Failure: A Crisis of Missed Opportunity; Problems, Promises, and Prescriptions: Infirmity as a Call to Healing.
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Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women's recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.
Rhetorical healing.
9781438462431
African American women in literature.
African American women-- Intellectual life.
African American women-- Psychology.
American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.