Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1963030
S. Ramsey
{"title":"Mythic Progenitors in Chinese and Sumerian Rhetorical Culture: A Short Primer","authors":"S. Ramsey","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1963030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1963030","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This argument demonstrates how rhetorical theory was shaped recursively by the mythology of ancient Sumer and China, and resulted in new discursive formations in subsequent rhetorical theory. These discursive theoretical formations occurred after the advent of widespread literate practice. The myth of Cangjie shaped the teleology of rhetoric of ancient China and the myth of Enmerkar shaped rhetorical theory in Sumer in similar ways. Following the authority of Walker, Schiappa, and Johnstone, which charted a similar phenomenon in ancient Greece, these non-Greco-Roman myths were deployed to form a similar pattern. By following Rita Copeland’s call to “allow the history of rhetoric to be written through mythic time,” it can be shown that the use of myths by ancient cultures to shape their rhetorical theories suggests that this is not merely a Greco-Roman feature of rhetoric in antiquity, but a human one.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"412 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44291384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1981109
Carly S. Woods
{"title":"Keeping TABS: Feminist Publishing and Pedagogy in the Wake of Title IX","authors":"Carly S. Woods","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1981109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1981109","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School was a journal founded by Lucy Picco Simpson and the Organization for Equal Education of the Sexes. Attention to this publication sheds light on feminist activism as it transformed in the wake of Title IX legislation in the late 1970s and 1980s. In examining the journal’s ability to facilitate networking, production, and accountability, we gain greater insight into how teachers and students were able to question normative messages about race, gender, class, and ability in educational materials and diversify the range of historical figures discussed in schools.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"363 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48847634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1963040
Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Rebecca Walton
{"title":"Reviewer as Activist: Understanding Academic Review through Conocimiento","authors":"Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Rebecca Walton","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1963040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1963040","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that academic manuscript review is a site for activism, using Anzaldúa’s theory of conocimiento as a framework to contextualize the reviewer’s role in this process. It demonstrates that conocimiento provides a structure for engaging in the manuscript-review process in a way that mediates among potentially conflicting worldviews. Conocimiento informs more justice-oriented reviewing and positions the anonymous reviewer as activist. This article explores each stage of conocimiento and anonymous review through multifaceted methods: storytelling, theory, and a synthesis of the two. It ends by presenting concrete, action-based takeaways for reviewers who want to approach reviewing justly and equitably.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"378 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45571169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1935157
Ersula J. Ore, Kimberly Wieser, Christina V. Cedillo
{"title":"Symposium: Diversity is not Enough: Mentorship and Community-Building as Antiracist Praxis","authors":"Ersula J. Ore, Kimberly Wieser, Christina V. Cedillo","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1935157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1935157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"207 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48967328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithmic Abstraction and the Racial Neoliberal Rhetorics of 23andMe","authors":"Kathleen Daly Weisse, Julie Jung, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1922800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1922800","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Western mathematics functions as a technology of violence when it enlists computational algorithms to underwrite racial neoliberalism. Theorizing algorithmic abstraction as a racial neoliberal technique, this article dramatizes the concept’s methodological affordances through a case study of 23andMe, which deploys algorithmic abstraction to affectively secure and sell Whiteness.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"284 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47287986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922798
David J. Coogan
{"title":"The Rhetoric of Redemption in African-American Prison Memoirs","authors":"David J. Coogan","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1922798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1922798","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Some critics have theorized redemption in prison memoir as capitulation to prison’s disciplinary gaze. But a closer look at African-American memoirs emerging from the War on Drugs reveals that redemption is not an artifice of oppression or a singular destination but a topic for rhetorical invention. This essay shows how two memoirists—Jeff Henderson and Susan Burton—formed narrative identity from traumatic experiences and oppressive conditions of poverty and racism that led to crime and incarceration. Redemption begins when they question interpretations of that experience and create new narrative identities in the social worlds of upward mobility, recovery, and emancipation. Inventing redemption does not relieve them from the burdens of their histories but gives them new ways of relating to their histories and, in this way, new hope in controlling their futures. The rhetoric of redemption in African-American prison memoir is a powerful counterweight to the rhetoric of mass incarceration depicting African-Americans as unredeemable.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"300 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44512567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922053
Trent M. Kays
{"title":"Rhetorical Speculations: The Future of Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology","authors":"Trent M. Kays","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1922053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1922053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"315 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41848969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922799
A. McGee
{"title":"(Re)reading Sor Juana’s Rhetorics: The Intersectional, Cultural, and Feminist Rhetorician","authors":"A. McGee","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1922799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1922799","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sor Juana, a criolla nun in Mexico’s colonial period, is most recognized for her letter, “La Respuesta” (or “The Response”), to the Bishop of Puebla where she fiercely championed women’s rights in the Americas. However, few discursive spaces take up critical examinations of her work. As such, she is often inscribed within the remnants of White, European intellectual legacies. But what if there was more? Sor Juana’s epistolary writing is a rich site of revisionary possibilities, especially as feminist archival methodology flourishes in rhetoric and composition. This article aims to complicate discussions of Sor Juana as a (proto)feminist rhetorician by including interdisciplinary and intersectional renderings of her embodied, epistolary writing. Drawing on Black feminist rhetorics, I argue that we can discursively (re)read Sor Juana not just as a rhetorician but as an intersectional, cultural, and feminist rhetorician.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"270 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46678335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1883797
Lisa S. Mastrangelo
{"title":"Genre Bending and Spiritual Resistance: Mina Pachter’s Concentration Camp “Cookbook”","authors":"Lisa S. Mastrangelo","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1883797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1883797","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This piece examines In Memory’s Kitchen, a collection of recipes, poems, and letters compiled by Mina Pächter in the Terezîn Concentration Camp. The author argues that a proper reading of the text involves understanding genre, acts of resistance, and genre bending. Without applying these complex concepts to the texts, readers are at risk of misreading Pächter’s text as a cookbook rather than a memory text of spiritual resistance.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"138 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07350198.2021.1883797","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44320020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhetoric ReviewPub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842
Richard Branscomb
{"title":"After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock","authors":"Richard Branscomb","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"198 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49130555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}