Agency in the margins : stories of outsider rhetoric / edited by Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stockdell-Giesler, Anne Meade, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.

Rhetoric--United States--History.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Freedom of Speech and the Politics of Silence: The Case of Ward Churchill

Recovering the Voices of the Florida Turpentine Slaves: A Lost Rhetoric of Resistance

A Hole Story: The Space of Historical Memory in the Abolitionist Imagination

''Mirrors of hard, distorting glass'':Invisible Man as Outsider Rhetoric

Historical Moments, Historical Words: The Continuing Legacy of Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton in Common's Rap Music

Outsider Rhetoric in Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies

''To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest'': Words, Walls, and the Rhetorical

''Protect yourself at all times'': Million Dollar Baby, Boxing, and Feminine Agency

(Still) Calling Out from the Closet?: The Rhetoric of Visibility in Queer TV and Film

Modernity Baptized in the Spirit: Early Pentecostal Rhetoric in America

Techno-Mob Movements: Public Performances and the Collective Voices of Outsiders Jessica Ketcham Weber

Strategic Essentialism and the Representation of the Natural: The Case of Ecofeminist/ Scientist Wangari Maathai

Conclusion

Contributers

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8386-4276-4

OCLC:

560343981