Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. Much of this work was conceived and written during Obama's initial presidential campaign, or relatively early in his two terms in office. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication. In each chapter, these eminent critics begin by summarizing the analysis and conclusions in their original essays on Obama, and then reflect on their previous conclusions, revising or extending them in response to developments since the publication of the original work. The chapters provide a glimpse into the inventional strategies of practicing critics and into some of the ways that that critical insights may evolve over time. Scholars rarely have an opportunity to publish essays that reflect on their own previous work, even though few resources can be of greater use to both beginning critics and to established scholars seeking to continue to hone and reflect on their critical practice. This book, then, makes an important contribution not only to the existing literature on the 44th president of the United States, but also and perhaps most significantly to the study of the art and craft of rhetorical criticism.

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Information

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Year

2017

ISBN

9781433143946

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Political History & Theory

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction (Robert E. Terrill)
Chapter One: Rhetorical Charges: Mercurian Figures and Democratic Hope after Obama (Peter Simonson)
Chapter Two: A Wrestling of Brothers: (Re)Writing Obama Separately and Together (Again) (David A. Frank / Mark Lawrence McPhail)
Chapter Three: Barack Obama’s Neo-Racial Responses to Black Death (Amy L. Heyse / Ebony A. Utley)
Chapter Four: Obama’s Rhetoric of Myth and Reason (Robert C. Rowland)
Chapter Five: Barack Obama at the Threshold of a New America (Robert L. Ivie / Oscar Giner)
Chapter Six: The Once and Future Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama (Richard W. Leeman)
Chapter Seven: Testing the Narrative Signature Perspective: The Case of Obama and Health Care Reform (Martin J. Medhurst)
Chapter Eight: Losing Patience with an Imperfect President and Imperfect People (Derek R. Sweet / Margret McCue-Enser)
Chapter Nine: How Selective Amnesia Brought Us the First Black Socialist President of the United States (Kristen Hoerl)
Chapter Ten: A Reflection on the Obama Phenomenon, Our Heroic Expectations, and the Obama Presidency (Jennifer R. Mercieca)
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index