Martin Luther King, Jr.s I Have a Dream speech has become an icon of American public culture, its imagery and words profoundly influencing the civil rights debate. In The Rhetoric of Redemption Bobbitt applies Kenneth Burkes theory of guilt-purification-redemption in a close, critical analysis of the speech, developing and examining the implications of Burkes redemption drama in contemporary public discourse. He studies the impact of the speech over time, arguing that, while Kings speech contains an inspirational vision of national redemption, it does so by omitting the real difficulties of overcoming Americas racial divisions.
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