This book traces the ways that African Americans learned lessons in rhetoric through language-based activities associated with black survival in nineteenth-cent

This book responds to a growing body of work in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics that places an emphasis on situated descriptions of language education

Liberating Language identifies experiences of nineteenth-century African Americans—categorized as sites of rhetorical education—that provided opportunities

Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 1

The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving usâe"in lively styleâe"both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. �