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"Malcolm X, like any orator, did not fashion his discourse in a vacuum but worked within and modified modes fashioned by his predecessors. Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment begins by exploring the interpretive strategies presented in key texts from the history of African American protest, establishing a spectrum against which Malcolm's oratory can be assessed. Then the texts of speeches that Malcolm delivered while he was a minister for the Nation of Islam and the texts of speeches and statements he made after he left the Nation are analyzed carefully to discern the strategies of interpretation and judgment that he enacted and fostered in his audiences. Finally, this radical judgment, presented in and through Malcolm's public discourse, is recontextualized by using three disparate theoretical approaches. The purpose of this triangulation is not to contain the rhetoric of Malcolm X within the limitations of these vocabularies, but rather to show that the changing potential of Malcolm's rhetoric lies, in part, in its iconoclastic refusal to be constrained by definitive boundaries."--Jacket

Introduction / Robert E. Terrill, Indiana University -- Rhetorical charges: mercurian figures and democratic hope after Obama / Peter Simonson, University of Colorado Boulder -- A wrestling of brothers: (re)writing Obama separately and together (again) / David A. Frank, University of Oregon & Mark Lawrence McPhail, Indiana University Northwest -- Barack Obama's neo-racial responses to black death / Amy L. Heyse, California State University, Long Beach & Ebony A. Utley, California State University, Long Beach -- Obama's rhetoric of myth and reason / Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas -- Barack Obama at the threshold of a new America / Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University & Oscar Giner, Arizona State University -- The once and future teleological discourse of Barack Obama / Richard W. Leeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte -- Testing the narrative signature perspective: the case of Obama and health care reform / Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University -- Losing patience with an imperfect president and imperfect people / Derek R. Sweet, Luther College & Margret McCue-Enser, Saint Catherine University -- How selective amnesia brought us the first Black Socialist president of the United States / Kristen Hoerl, University of Nebraska-Lincoln -- A reflection on the Obama phenomenon, our heroic expectations, and the Obama presidency / Jennifer R. Mercieca, Texas A&M University