Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1496836146 ISBN 13 : 9781496836144

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Synopsis

Contributions by Whitney Jordan Adams, Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Jason Edward Black, Patricia G. Davis, Cassidy D. Ellis, Megan Fitzmaurice, Michael L. Forst, Jeremy R. Grossman, Cynthia P. King, Julia M. Medhurst, Ryan Neville-Shepard, Jonathan M. Smith, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Dave Tell, and Carolyn Walcott

Southern rhetoric is communication's oldest regional study. During its initial invention, the discipline was founded to justify the study of rhetoric in a field of white male scholars analyzing significant speeches by other white men, yielding research that added to myths of Lost Cause ideology and a uniquely oratorical culture. Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric takes on the much-overdue task of reconstructing the way southern rhetoric has been viewed and critiqued within the communication discipline. The collection reveals that southern rhetoric is fluid and migrates beyond geography, is constructed in weak counterpublic formation against legitimated power, creates a region that is not monolithic, and warrants activism and healing.

Contributors to the volume examine such topics as political campaign strategies, memorial and museum experiences, television and music influences, commemoration protests, and ethnographic experiences in the South. The essays cohesively illustrate southern identity as manifested in various contexts and ways, considering what it means to be a part of a region riddled with slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other expressions of racial and cultural hierarchy. Ultimately, the volume initiates a new conversation, asking what would southern rhetorical critique be like if it included the richness of the southern culture from which it came?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Brandon Inabinet is associate professor of communication studies and cochair of the Task Force on Slavery and Justice at Furman University. His work has appeared in such publications as Rhetoric Review, Public Culture, and the Southern Communication Journal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496836146
• ISBN 13: 9781496836144
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Moss Christina L., Inabinet Brandon
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