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.

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

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.