A remarkable addition to the
study of African American rhetorical theory and composition studies, Adam
Banks Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age will compel scholars and students
alike to think about what they know of African American rhetoric in fresh and
useful ways.
Banks offers a mixtape of African American
digital rhetoric in his innovative study. Presenting the DJ as a quintessential
example of the digital griot-high-tech storyteller-this book shows how African
American storytelling traditions and their digital manifestations can help
scholars and teachers shape composition studies, thoroughly linking oral,
print, and digital production in ways that centralize African American
discursive practices as part of a multicultural set of ideas and pedagogical
commitments.
