Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition

by Gray-Rosendale, Laura; Gruber, Sibylle

• ISBN13: 9780791449745
• ISBN10: 0791449742
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Laura Gray-Rosendale is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Chair of Northern Arizona University's Commission on the Status of Women. Sibylle Gruber is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Northern Arizona University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Moving Beyond Traditions: Exploring the Need for ``Alternative Rhetorics''	1	(16)
Laura Gray-Rosendale
Sibylle Gruber
PART I CHANGING HISTORIES, CHANGING LIVES: REVISITING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION
Remembering the Rhetorics of Women: The Case of Jane Lead	17	(16)
Catherine F. Smith
Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as Rhetor	33	(20)
Phyllis Mentzell Ryder
Valentina M. Abordonado
Barbara Heifferon
Duane H. Roen
``Wooden Shoes and Mantle Clocks'': Letter Writing as a Rhetorical Forum for the Transforming Immigrant Identity	53	(24)
Kathleen A. Dehaan
PART II VIRTUAL REALITY, REAL VIRTUALITY: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE RHETORICS OF CYBERSPACE
The Rhetorics of Three Women Activist Groups on the Web: Building and Transforming Communities	77	(16)
Sibylle Gruber
Authority and Credibility: Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-Ethos	93	(18)
Theresa Enos
Shane Borrowman
Like a Cyborg Cassandra: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Internet's Misbegotten Rhetorical Situation	111	(16)
Jacqueline J. Lambiase
@ home among the .coms: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the Web	127	(22)
John B. Killoran
PART III RESISTING LABELS, PROMOTING CHANGE: TAKING A NEW LOOK AT RHETORICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE AND FILM
Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937)	149	(18)
Laura Gray-Rosendale
Visual Rhetorics and Classroom Practices: Negotiating `Contact Zones' in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust	167	(18)
Anthony J. Michel
Audience in Afrocentric Rhetoric: Promoting Human Agency and Social Change	185	(18)
Daniel F. Collins
PART IV OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER CUSTOMS: DEFYING TRADITIONAL RHETORICS OF GENDER AND CLASS IN ASIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's A Japanese Nightingale and Sui Sin Fat's ``The Smuggling of Tie Co''	203	(16)
Huining Ouyang
The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers: A Perspective from the Rhetorical Situation	219	(16)
Hui Wu
When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture	235	(22)
Jeff Schonberg
Contributors	257	(4)
Index	261