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Dr Catherine Brown, convenor and senior lecturer in English, New College of the Humanities • “The speech derives its power from a combination of disparate elements. On one hand, it is addressed to a particular time and place, and emphasises this fact: the situation is urgent; now is the time change must happen. On the other, the speech is dense with allusions to the Bible and foundational American documents and speeches. • King is explicitly saying that the Emancipation Proclamation is a ‘bad check’ that has yet to be honoured in regard to ‘the Negro people’, and the speech calls on that cheque to be honoured. • The other texts he refers to were not written by black people, but by using their phrases and rhythms he is asserting his…

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