Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood

Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women's recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.

Since the Black women's literary renaissance ended nearly three decades ago, a profitable and expansive market of self-help books, inspirational literature, family-friendly plays, and films marketed to Black women has emerged...