Revisiting Racialized Voice: African American Ethos in Language and Literature

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Revisiting Racialized Voice African American Ethos in Language and Literature Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale Revisiting Racialized Voice DAVID G. HOLMES Copyright © 2004 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University Paperback edition 2007 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10 09 08 07 4 3 2 1 Chapter 6, “The Rhetoric of Black Voice: Implications for Composition Pedagogy ,” is based on “Fighting Back by Writing Black: Beyond Racially Reductive Composition Theory,” by David G. Holmes, in Race, Rhetoric, and Composition, edited by Keith Gilyard. Published by Boynton/Cook Publishers, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, Inc., Portsmouth, NH, 1999. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holmes, David Glen. Revisiting racialized voice : African American ethos in language and literature / David G. Holmes. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. African Americans—Languages. 2. American literature—African American authors—History and criticism. 3. English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching —United States. 4. Dialect literature, American—History and criticism. 5. African Americans—Education—Language arts. 6. African Americans in literature. 7. Race in literature. 8. Black English. I. Title. PE3102.N42 H65 2004 810.9'896073—dc21 ISBN 0-8093-2547-0 (alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2767-6 ISBN-10: 0-8093-2767-8 2003012598 Printed on recycled paper. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. ' For James E. Smythe, who saw my potential to be a scholar before I could ...