Rhetoric and ethnicity / edited by Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilyard, Keith, 1952-

Nunley, Vorris.

Series:

CrossCurrents (Portsmouth, N.H.)

CrossCurrents, new perspectives in rhetoric and composition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Rhetoric.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Physical Description:

xi, 164 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2004]

Summary:

Drawn from a 2001 conference entitled American Ethnic Rhetorics, the essays in this volume open up vigorous debate about alternative discourses and modes of presentation. Drawing upon a methodology Gilyard calls "critical ethnicity," the authors analyze notions of history, identity, and pedagogy in essays that range from scholarly article and aesthetic analysis to autobiographical memoir and personal confession.

Contents:

Part I History 1

1 Meditations on Language, Pedagogy, and a Life of Struggle / Geneva Smitherman 3

2 Enslaved Women as Autobiographical Narrators: The Case of Louisa Picquet / Joycelyn K. Moody 15

3 "Semblances of Civilization": Zitkala Sa's Resistance to White Education / Jessica Enoch 24

4 Extending the Hand of Empire: American Indians and the Indian Reform Movement, a Beginning / Malea Powell 37

5 Uniqueness or Borderlands?: The Making of Asian-American Rhetorics / LuMing Mao 46

6 Contrastive U.S. and South American Rhetorics / Barry Thatcher 56

7 They Could Be Giants: Gregorio Cortez, Carmen Lomas Garza's Familias, and Spy Kids / Jaime Mejia 70

8 Police Violence and Denials of Race / Richard Marback 77

Part II Identity and Pedagogy 85

9 Nonessentialist Identity and the National Discourse / Marilyn M. Cooper 87

10 Community, Personal Experience, and Rhetoric of Commitment / Xin Liu Gale 103

11 Personal Narratives and Rhetorics of Black Womandhood in Hip-Hop / Gwendolyn D. Pough 111

12 Narratives of Ethnicity: A Tale of Two Nonnys / Marie J. Secor 119

13 Challenging the Constraints of First-Year Composition Through Ethnic Women's Narratives / Janice Chernekoff 129

14 Race, Rhetoric, and Sesame Street: Learning to See Ourselves Reading / Deborah M. Williams 137

15 Lessons from the Turtle Grandparents: American Indian Literature and the Teaching of Writing / Linda Cullum 143

16 Challenging Racial Authority, Rewriting Racial Authority: Multicultural Rhetorics in Literary Studies and Composition / Laurie Grobman 152.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference on American ethnic rhetorics held at Pennsylvania State University in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

086709575X

OCLC:

54372817