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Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance - Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream (Hardcover)
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Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance - Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
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Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering
Pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader, Nartey investigates
the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in
the literature. He examines Nkrumah's construction of a myth
described in the book as the Unite or Perish myth (i.e., the idea
of a 'United States of Africa' being a prerequisite for the
survival of Africa in the post-independence period), exploring the
rhetorical resources he deployed, categorizing and analyzing key
tropes and metaphors, and setting out the myth's basic components.
This book focuses on three areas: an investigation of political
myth-making as a social and discursive practice in order to
identify particular semiotic practices and linguistic patterns
deployed in the construction of mythic discourse; the unpacking of
the discursive manifestation, representation, features, and
functions of political mythic themes; and finally to propose and
implement an integrated discourse analytical framework to account
for the complexities of mythic discourse and political narratives
in general. It analyzes how Nkrumah deployed his discourse to
concurrently construct heroes and villains, protagonists and
antagonists, as part of an ideological mechanism aimed at
galvanizing support for and instigating action on the part of the
masses towards his lifelong African dream. Nartey's book steps out
from the conventional domain of critical discourse studies to focus
on myth as a form of populist performance. It will be of interest
to postgraduate students and academics in (critical) discourse
studies, rhetorical discourse analysis, African and Diaspora
studies, and African history, as well as non-academics such as
journalists, political commentators, and people who consider
themselves to be Nkrumaists and Pan-Africanists.
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