POLS 330 Study Guide - Final Guide: Amanuensis, Rhetorical Device, Jeremiad
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Diaspora: movement of people from one area to another, keep cultural practices in new area from old area. Trope of the talking book: book only speaks to white people. Black society was thought of as savage, therefore black people could not read. Black people thought books would not talk itues to them specifically because they were not white. Signifyin(g): signifying a rhetorical movement in which a person takes something that has been said before, repeats it, but changes the meaning: meant to mock. Typology: goes along with early puritanical writings, writing practices when stories that have been to before, get told again, retelling or repeating. Amanuensis: person who transcribes an oral narrative. Literary double bind: imitative/mimetic/more true vs. creative/imaginative/aesthetic/ not true. Speech act: statement in which the saying of the statement is the doing of the statement. Sentimentalism: draws on people"s emotions through word choice and imagery.
