"Whom, or what, does composition - defined here as an intentional process of study, either oral or written - serve? Bradford T. Stull contends that composition would do well to articulate, in theory and practice, what could be called "emancipatory composition." He argues that emancipatory composition is radically theopolitical: it roots itself in the foundational theological and political language of the American experience while it subverts this language in order to emancipate the oppressed and, thereby, the oppressors." "To articulate this vision, Stull looks to those who compose from an oppressed place, finding in the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X radical theopolitical practices that can serve as a model for emancipatory composition."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-142) and index.

1. Emancipatory Composition The Theoretical Tradition Composition from the Color Line Du Bois, King, Malcolm X Theopolitical Tropes 2. The Fall Babel Division of Property Violence 3. The Orient Yellow, Alien Other

Wise Person Backward Place 4. Africa Africa as Suffering Africa as Monstrous/Noble 5. Eden Malcolm X Du Bois King 6. Conclusion.