Alternative Rhetorics
Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition
Published on 19. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
279 pages
978-0-7914-4974-5 (ISBN)
Description
Challenges the traditional rhetorical canon.
Alternative Rhetorics questions traditional canons of rhetorical thought, and offers new perspectives on rhetorics historically overlooked within Western culture. Along with establishing new methodologies for investigating the history of rhetorics, the book also explores rhetoric's changing relationship with technology. By challenging the reader's understanding of rhetoric and the rhetorical tradition, Alternative Rhetorics provides insights that will allow researchers, educators, and students to rethink their own position in a rhetorical world.
Alternative Rhetorics questions traditional canons of rhetorical thought, and offers new perspectives on rhetorics historically overlooked within Western culture. Along with establishing new methodologies for investigating the history of rhetorics, the book also explores rhetoric's changing relationship with technology. By challenging the reader's understanding of rhetoric and the rhetorical tradition, Alternative Rhetorics provides insights that will allow researchers, educators, and students to rethink their own position in a rhetorical world.
Reviews / Votes
"Alternative Rhetorics is a fine work of scholarly originality that is well crafted and energetically written. It will serve as a resource to students and scholars alike." - C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A&M University"The book argues eloquently for understanding rhetoric as a decisive influence, an inclusive rather than an exclusive cultural power. It is compellingly instructive, and makes a significant contribution to the fields it brings together." - Christine Murray, Director, English Writing Center, University of Texas, Arlington
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-4974-5 (9780791449745)
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Persons
Laura Gray-Rosendale is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Chair of Northern Arizona University's Commission on the Status of Women. She is also the author of Rethinking "Basic Writing": Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in Interaction. Sibylle Gruber is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Northern Arizona University and editor of Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving Beyond Traditions: Exploring the Need for "Alternative Rhetorics"
LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE AND SIBYLLE GRUBER
PART I: CHANGING HISTORIES, CHANGING LIVES: REVISITING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION
1. Remembering the Rhetorics of Women: The Case of Jane Lead
CATHERINE F. SMITH
2. Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as Rhetor
PHYLLIS MENTZELL RYDER, VALENTINA M. ABORDONADO, BARABRA HEIFFERON, AND DUANE H. ROEN
3. "Wooden Shoes and Mantle Clocks": Letter Writing as a Rhetorical Forum for the Transforming Immigrant Identity
KATHLEEN A. DEHAAN
PART II: VIRTUAL REALITY, REAL VIRTUALITY: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE RHETORICS OF CYBERSPACE
4. The Rhetorics of Three Women Activist Groups on the Web: Building and Transforming Communities
SIBYLLE GRUBER
5. Authority and Credibility: Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-Ethos
THERESA ENOS AND SHANE BORROWMAN
6. Like a Cyborg Cassandra: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Internet's Misbegotten Rhetorical Situation
JACQUELINE J. LAMBIASE
7. @ home among the.coms: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the Web
JOHN B. KILLORAN
PART III: RESISTING LABELS, PROMOTING CHANGE: TAKING A NEW LOOK AT RHETORICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE AND FILM
8. Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937)
LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE
9. Visual Rhetorics and Classroom Practices: Negotiating "Contact Zones" in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
ANTHONY J. MICHEL
10. Audience in Afrocentric Rhetoric: Promoting Huam Agency and Social Change
DANIEL F. COLLINS
PART IV: OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER CUSTOMS: DEFYING TRADITIONAL RHETORICS OF GENDER AND CLASS IN ASIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES
11. Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's A Japanese Nightengale and Sui Sin Far's "The Smuggling of Tie Co"
HUINING OUYANG
12. The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers: A Perspective from the Rhetorical Situation
HUI WU
13. When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture
JEFF SCHONBERG
Contirbutors
Index
Introduction: Moving Beyond Traditions: Exploring the Need for "Alternative Rhetorics"
LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE AND SIBYLLE GRUBER
PART I: CHANGING HISTORIES, CHANGING LIVES: REVISITING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION
1. Remembering the Rhetorics of Women: The Case of Jane Lead
CATHERINE F. SMITH
2. Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as Rhetor
PHYLLIS MENTZELL RYDER, VALENTINA M. ABORDONADO, BARABRA HEIFFERON, AND DUANE H. ROEN
3. "Wooden Shoes and Mantle Clocks": Letter Writing as a Rhetorical Forum for the Transforming Immigrant Identity
KATHLEEN A. DEHAAN
PART II: VIRTUAL REALITY, REAL VIRTUALITY: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE RHETORICS OF CYBERSPACE
4. The Rhetorics of Three Women Activist Groups on the Web: Building and Transforming Communities
SIBYLLE GRUBER
5. Authority and Credibility: Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-Ethos
THERESA ENOS AND SHANE BORROWMAN
6. Like a Cyborg Cassandra: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Internet's Misbegotten Rhetorical Situation
JACQUELINE J. LAMBIASE
7. @ home among the.coms: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the Web
JOHN B. KILLORAN
PART III: RESISTING LABELS, PROMOTING CHANGE: TAKING A NEW LOOK AT RHETORICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE AND FILM
8. Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937)
LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE
9. Visual Rhetorics and Classroom Practices: Negotiating "Contact Zones" in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
ANTHONY J. MICHEL
10. Audience in Afrocentric Rhetoric: Promoting Huam Agency and Social Change
DANIEL F. COLLINS
PART IV: OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER CUSTOMS: DEFYING TRADITIONAL RHETORICS OF GENDER AND CLASS IN ASIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES
11. Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's A Japanese Nightengale and Sui Sin Far's "The Smuggling of Tie Co"
HUINING OUYANG
12. The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers: A Perspective from the Rhetorical Situation
HUI WU
13. When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture
JEFF SCHONBERG
Contirbutors
Index