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DeCerteau’s “The Historiographical Operation”
DeCerteau’s “The Historiographical Operation” came out of French school in 1920s. What historians fabricate when they “make history” is the central focus of DeCerteau’s “The Historiographical Operation.” DeCerteau claims when we envision history as an operation, we understand its … Continue reading
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American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic Edited by Ernest Stromberg
In his introduction to this collection, Stromberg offers rich insight into American Indian rhetorics, beginning with the point that the exclusion of American Indians voices and practices from the Western rhetorical tradition is part of what Stephen Riggins calls the … Continue reading
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cintron, Ralph — Angel’s Town
Ethnographers situate their studies differently. History is contextualized and politicized. Field sites are frozen in time in ethnographies. In Cintron, however, site is not frozen. The site is constructed through his eyes. The site is created through his … Continue reading
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Inderpal Grewel and Caren Kaplan — Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices
Introduction: Transnational Feminist Practices and Questions of Postmodernity thoughts on rhetoric: the way terms get co-opted constitutes a form of practice, just as the way that they contain possibilities for critical use is also an oppositional practice. … Continue reading
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Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks Eds. Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley
With the call in Octolog II to look for rhetoric in cultural locations unpreviously examined, Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks attempts to explore rhetoric before and beyond the limited scope of Athenian rhetoric in ways that do not reify … Continue reading
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Powell, Malea
Powell, Malea. “Extending the Hand of Empire: American Indians and the Reform Movement, a Beginning” In this essay, Powell describes the discursive interactions of Susan LaFleche Picotte and the Women’s National Indian Association (WNIA). In exploring this rhetorical relationship, … Continue reading
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Gloria Anzaldua Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
In a radical genre she calls autohistoria, which offers an innovative way to write history, Gloria Anzaldua presents a non-linear history of both the geographical and psychological landscapes of Borderlands. Anzulda’s autohistoria is a genre of mixed media—personal narrative, testimonio, … Continue reading
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Rhetoric and Ethnicity edited by Keith Gilyard
In his preface to this edited collection, Gilyard explains his intention for this collection was to explore “how ethnic rhetorics might function as generative sites of difference, how they intersect with social movements, how they might shape composition instruction, and … Continue reading
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Summary “Choosing Between Isocrates and Artistotle” — Haskins
In “Choosing Between Isocrates and Artistotle,” Haskins attempts to dispel several assumptions that support and maintain Aristotelian rhetoric as the apex of the classical Greek rhetorical tradition. Haskins worries that rhetoric students are being taught that classical rhetoric is a … Continue reading
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“Revisionist Historiography” Graff and Leff
In this literature review, which describes multiple waves of revisionist historiography, Graff and Leff illustrate early attempts at defining systems of rhetoric by scholars working within speech communications that were based on different categories. While Duhamel categorized rhetoric based on … Continue reading
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