Rhetoric Across Borders

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Rhetoric Across Borders features a select representation of 27 essays and excerpts from the “In Conversation” panels at the Rhetoric Society of America’s 2014 conference on “Border Rhetorics.”

Sujets

• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• Rhetoric

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602357402
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Rhetoric Across Borders
Edited by Anne Teresa Demo
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
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Rhetoric across borders / edited by Anne Teresa Demo. -- First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-737-2 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-738-9 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
1. Rhetoric. I. Demo, Anne Teresa, 1968- editor.
P301.R425 2015
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2015024861
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Cover image by Nuno Silva at Unsplash.com. Used by permission.
RSA 2014 logo designed by Lori Klopp.
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Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Introduction
Anne Teresa Demo
Between Materiality and Rhetoric
1 Material Rhetoric and the Ritual Transfiguration of Impure Flesh in the Purification Rules (Dead Sea Scrolls 4QTohorot A and 4QTohorot B)
Bruce McComiskey
2 Rhetorical and Material Boundaries: Animal Agency and Presence in Small Oceanic Islands
Peter Goggin
3 Smellscapes, Social Justice, and Olfactory Perception
Lisa L. Phillips
4 Blurring the Boundaries: Projective Embodiment in Videogames
Jeffrey B. Holmes
Crossing Cultures: Refiguring Audience, Author, Text and Borders
5 Toward a New Understanding of Audience in the Medieval Arabic Translation Movement: The Case of Al-Kindi’s “Statement on the Soul”
Maha Baddar
6 All Nations, One Blood, Three Hundred Years: Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Civil Rights Rhetoric as Transatlantic Abolitionism
Keith D. Miller
7 “Carry Your Green Book With You”: The Green Book as Representative Anecdote
Elizabethada A. Wright
8 Gertrude Stein on the Borders of Identity
Patrick Shaw
9 (Re)Bordering the Scholarly Imaginary: The State and Future of Rhetorical Border Studies
Antonio Tomas De La Garza, D. Robert DeChaine, & Kent A. Ono
Remapping the Political
10 Peacemaking and the Chancery in Medieval Cairo: Revisiting Medieval Arabic Rhetoric
Rasha Diab
11 “What It Is to Be a Queenslander”: The Australian State Parliamentary Motion of Condolence on Natural Disasters as Epideictic and Regional Rhetoric
Rosemary Williamson
12 Going Digital: Rhetorical Strategies in the Enhanced State of the Union
Jeffrey A. Kurr
13 Redrawing the GOP Borders? Women, Reproduction, and the Political Landscape of the 2014 Midterm Election
Lora Arduser & Amy Koerber
Contesting Boundaries: Science, Technology, and Nature
14 Localized Science Sentinels: TEDx and the Shared Norms of Scientific Integrity
Ron Von Burg
15 Citizen Science in Lower Hood Canal: The Emergence of the Lower Hood Canal Watershed Coalition (LHCWC) as a Forum for Environmental Education, Policy Development and the Shaping of Political Will
John Angus Campbell
16 The “Native” as Not So Creative Commonplace in the Borderland of Environmental Writing
Alexis F. Piper
17 Technologies of Mediation and the Borders and Boundaries of Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Marine Species Advocacy
Amy D. Propen
Teaching Across Divides
18 “What did you do in the war, Mommy?” Competing Constructs in the Women in Military Service for America Memorial
Amy Milakovic
19 Service-Learning in the “Borderlands” at an Hispanic Serving Institution in South Texas
Susan Garza
20 Assessing the New Media Rhetoric: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
Kathleen Marie Baldwin
21 Positioning Rhetoric at The Heart of the Matter: Engaging Faculty, Engaging Students
Jane Detweiler, Margaret R. LaWare, Thomas P. Miller, & Patti Wojahn
In Conversation: Fragments and Provocations
22 Fragments from “In Conversation: Critical Rhetorics of Race”
Keith Gilyard & Kent A. Ono
23 Fragments from “In Conversation: Rhetoric and Activism”
Dana Cloud & Seth Kahn
24 Fragments from “Coalitional Gestures, Third Spaces, and Rhetorical Imaginaries: A Dialogue in Queer Chican@ Feminism”
Karma R. Chávez & Adela C. Licona
25 In Conversation: The Rhetoric of Disability and Access
James L. Cherney & Margaret Price
26 Fragment from “What Role Can/Should Academic Journals Play in the Future of Rhetoric Scholarship”
Barbara Biesecker, James Jasinski, & Kelly Ritter
27 Fragments from “Rhetorical Theory: Questions, Provocations, Futures”
Bradford Vivian & Diane Davis
Contributors
Index to the Print Edition


Introduction
Anne Teresa Demo
T he location and timing of the sixteenth Biennial Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference made “Border Rhetorics” a relevant and generative theme for the over twelve-thousand attendees who convened in San Antonio, Texas from May 22-26, 2014. San Antonio’s history reflects the constructed and contested nature of boundary-work at all levels—geographic, cultural, and communal—and inspired conversations that addressed the realities of material divisions while also recognizing the potential of intersectionality. Held during a year that marked the centennial of an organizational division between English and Communication (when public speaking teachers broke away from the National Council of Teachers of English in 1914), the conference featured twelve “In Conversation” panels that paired prominent scholars from Composition/English and Communication. These panels addressed concepts foundational to rhetorical inquiry such as agency, activism, and publics as well as issues with such shared investments as the status of rhetorical education and the role of journals in the future of rhetorical scholarship. To be sure, such conversations predate the 2014 conference; however, these panels (and the selected excerpts included herein) sought to provoke new dialogues and cultivate the flow of inquiry and collaboration across the disciplinary borders of rhetoric. 1 As RSA President Kendall Phillips noted, “RSA was formed in large part as a bridge across this border and that is still one of the driving forces of the association” (5).
Conference participants engaged the theme of “Border Rhetorics” in ways that not only reinvigorated the border as a conceptual metaphor but also challenged boundaries within rhetorical scholarship. In addition to panels on contemporary geo-political borders, panelists leveraged the sense of movement and divergent cultures that define a borderland, whether formed by nation-states or academic disciplines. From Ancient Greece and the Ching Dynasty to modern classrooms and social media, the conference provided an opportunity for sustained reflection on the rhetorical nature of borders across periods, cultures, and sites while prompting dialogue on our role in contesting boundaries through our scholarship and pedagogy. The diverse subjects and methodological orientations covered in the 425 conference sessions document how rhetorical scholarship is refiguring the theory/praxis divide.
With over 1,300 papers presented at the conference, this volume features only a select representation of essays and excerpts from the “In Conversation” panels. The organizational groupings reflect thematic through-lines in the submissions as well as a confidence in Burke’s perspective by incongruity as a method fitting the exploration of various borderlands. Accordingly, sections juxtapose essays that approach themes such as materiality and politics from different periods and genres. As Burke notes in the prologue to Permanence and Change , “perspective by incongruity could be likened to the procedure of certain modern painters who picture how an object might seem if inspected simultaneously from two quite different positions” (lv). Each section also features scholars at diverse stages in their careers and work that approaches rhetoric from the range of perspectives offered in Composition/English and Communication with the hope that such “planned incongruity” cultivates a wrenching loose of disciplinary borders. Finally, the volume concludes with fragments and provocations excerpted from “In Conversation” panels to goad further dialogue, collaboration, and debate.
The selected essays in the first section, Between Materiality and Rhetoric , explore points of interface between rhetoric and materiality. Peter Goggin’s essay opens with an epigraph that provides an apt orientation to the shared assumption animating the work across this section: “Discursive practices and material phenomena do not stand in a relationship of externality to each other; rather the material and disc