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{"title":"“This is America”: repurposing the white gaze through imitation","authors":"Kesha James","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2260565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2260565","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTChildish Gambino's music video “This is America” garnered national attention for its graphic portrayals of commodified Black pain. The music video critically exposes how white America visually consumes Black pain for entertainment and profit via the sadistic fetishism of the white gaze. Through the rhetorical strategy of imitation, the video destabilizes and challenges the white gaze's fetishization of Black im/mobility and sadistic erasure of Black death, both of which are painful and violent depictions that have benefitted white America historically and culturally. My analysis offers what I theorize as repurposing the white gaze to understand how texts can visually subvert their own consumption, altering how viewers engage with mediated texts to challenge the consumer logics of the white gaze present in Black cultural productions. By repurposing the white gaze through imitation, “This is America” invites viewers to unsettle their own white gaze and engage the video's depictions anew, shifting viewers' orientation to see the invisible and hegemonic practices of the white gaze. The article concludes that scholars might find additional strategies that can repurpose the white gaze to advance creative ways to disrupt the suffocating white gaze.KEYWORDS: Whitenessimitationwhite gazeconsumptionBlack pain AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank Roger Stahl for his generous guidance and under whose direction this essay was theoretically developed through many stages as a dissertation chapter, as well as Belinda Stillion Southard, whose careful readings and suggestions were instrumental in the development of this essay. Thanks are also given to Savannah Greer Downing, Blake Cravey, and Alex Morales for their invaluable feedback for countless iterations of this essay and constant encouragement. Last, the author would like to thank Stacey K. Sowards and two anonymous reviewers for their generous feedback and constructive readings of this essay.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 When I write “white America,” I refer to the specific context of the US. This usage is not to reify the erasure of non-US nations in the Americas but to reflect the text’s name, “This is America,” which invokes US-specific events.2 This essay draws from Richard Dyer's understanding of “strange” in “The Matter of Whiteness.” Dyer charges that whiteness must be identified as abnormal or rather “strange” to challenge whiteness as a universal norm. Scholars can then expose the particularity of whiteness making it accountable for its violence. See Richard Dyer, “The Matter of Whiteness,” in White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, ed. Paula S. Rothenberg (New York: Worth Publishers, 2005), 9–14.3 Lia McGarrigle, “How Twitter is Reacting to Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ Video,” HighSnobiety, May 7, 2018.4 McGarrigle, “How Twitter is Reacting.”5 Judy Berman, “‘This is America’: 8 Things to ","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alienizing logics and rhetoric at the end of the world","authors":"Karma R. Chávez","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2261209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2261209","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Annie Hill, “SlutWalk as Perifeminist Response to Rape Logic: The politics of Reclaiming a Name,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 13, no. 1 (2016): 23–39.2 Karma R. Chávez and Annie Hill, “The Visual and Sonic Registers of Neighbourhood Estrangement,” Journal of Intercultural Studies 42, no. 1 (2021): 68–83.3 Karma R. Chávez, “Beyond Inclusion: Rethinking Rhetoric’s Historical Narrative,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 101, no. 1 (2015): 162–72.4 Michael Calvin McGee, “Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary Culture,” Western Journal of Speech Communication 54, no. 3 (1990): 274–90.5 Edwin Black, Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method, 2nd ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978), xi.6 Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008).7 Lisa M. Corrigan and Mary E. Stuckey, “Rebooting Rhetoric and Public Address,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 24, no. 1–2 (2021): 1–14.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance <b>The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance</b> , by Karma R. Chávez, Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 2021, 264 pp., $30(paperback)","authors":"A. Naomi Paik","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2261211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2261211","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Mae M. Ngai, “Birthright Citizenship and the Alien Citizen,” Fordham Law Review 75:5 (2007): 2521–30.2 Erika Lee, “Americans are the dangerous, disease-carrying foreigners now,” Washington Post, July 8, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/08/covid-travel-bans-americans/.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135900574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrative multiplicities and the politics of memory in <i>The Borders of AIDS</i>","authors":"Jeff Bennett","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2261208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2261208","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Jih-Fei Cheng, “AIDS, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer and Trans of Color Critiques, and the Crisis of Knowledge Production,” in AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, eds. Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), 85.2 Editor’s note to Julia S. Jordan-Zachery’s “Safe, Soulful Sex: HIV/AIDS Talk,” in AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, 95.3 The irony that I am evoking this frame to make a point is not lost on me.4 Karma Chávez The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021), 13.5 Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012), 25.6 See, for example, Theodore Kerr, “How to Live with a Virus,” POZ, March 23, 2020, https://www.poz.com/article/live-virus7 Chávez, Borders of AIDS, 5.8 Kevin Mumford, Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), 172.9 Andrew Pope, “Let Me Be Somebody: Fabian Bridges & Quarantine Proposals During the HIV & AIDS Crisis in America,” unpublished paper obtained through contact with the author, January 9, 2023.10 Chávez, Borders of AIDS, 7611 Riley C. Snorton, Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 124.12 Cathy Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 143.13 Steven W. Thrasher, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (New York: Celadon Books, 2022), 52.14 Cristina Mejia Visperas, Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory (New York: New York University Press, 2022), 9–10.15 Visperas, Skin Theory, 10.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"236 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“The Rosa Parks of the trans bathroom debate”: Gavin Grimm and the racialization of transgender civil rights","authors":"Erin J. Rand","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2259963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2259963","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTGavin Grimm, a white transgender boy from Virginia, successfully sued his school board in Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board and helped secure the right for trans and gender nonconforming students to use public school bathrooms that correspond to their gender identities. His 2021 victory was the culmination of a long legal battle that began in 2014, when the Gloucester County School Board (GCSB) passed a resolution that segregated bathrooms on the basis of “biological gender.” This essay considers the two GCSB meetings at which this resolution was debated as instances of “ordinary democracy,” where local practices of deliberation not only set policy but also sustain community and produce shared opinion. Drawing on Black trans scholarship that proposes the transitivity of Blackness and demonstrates how Blackness is made present in the service of whiteness, I examine how the discussions at the GCSB meetings strategically mobilized civil rights rhetoric and histories of racial segregation to debate Gavin’s entitlement to public space. Blackness, I argue, is invoked and disavowed as a condition of possibility for modern white trans identities and a resource for vernacular articulations of the scope of trans rights.KEYWORDS: Bathroom billsordinary democracyschool boardsBlack trans studiesGavin Grimm Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 I follow the lead of scholars like GPat Patterson and Leland G. Spencer, who contend that “trans” is “an intentional move to hold space for a range of gender expansive people—who may identify as trans, transgender, and/or transsexual, and who move through the world as men, women, nonbinary people, agender people, and other non/gendered positionalities.” (GPat Patterson and Leland G. Spencer, “Toward Trans Rhetorical Agency: A Critical Analysis of Trans Topics in Rhetoric and Composition and Communication Scholarship,” Peitho 22, no. 4 (Summer 2020).) As I will describe later in this essay, Black trans scholarship posits “trans*” (with the asterisk) as not only an identity label, but also an analytic, a method, or an optic, with “ontological, ideological, and epistemological ramifications.” (Kai M. Green, “Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans* Analytic,” in No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, ed. E. Patrick Johnson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016), 66–67.)2 I refer to Gavin (and other young people) by first names throughout this essay for two reasons: first, using Gavin’s first name is a humanizing gesture, reminding us that although he is the subject of community controversy, policy debate, media attention, and legal decisions, he is still a private citizen and, most importantly, a minor. Second, as a trans young person, Gavin’s first name is a site of identity construction and agency; I seek to preserve his right to self-expression through naming by using that name here. Joshua Block, “‘All I Want to Do Is Be a Normal Child a","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135344923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward reproductive justice rhetorics of care: state senator Jen Jordan’s dissent of Georgia’s heartbeat bill","authors":"Savannah Greer Downing","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2255640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2255640","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAs we emerge into a post-Roe landscape spurred by state-level “heartbeat bills,” the stakes are high for rhetorical scholars to identify rhetorical topoi that have the capacity to intervene in legislative acts of reproductive injustice. Already, feminist rhetorical scholars have determined the rhetorical limits of topoi derived from legal, medical, and &lt;choice&gt; frameworks. Thus, I build upon Kelly Pender’s “rhetoric of care” to theorize what I name reproductive justice rhetorics of care, rhetorical topoi that can advance reproductive justice (RJ). Importantly, I view RJ as a contingent telos – not an analytic – to which both radical (protest) and reform (institutional) rhetoric can contribute. I argue that Georgia state Senator Jen Jordan’s dissent of HB 481, Georgia’s heartbeat bill, offers three RJ rhetorics of care from within the constraints of institutional dissent: women as the fiduciaries of life, reproduction as an embodied process, and mother – reclaimed and reframed. This analysis underscores the importance of identifying the rhetorical strategies invoked by state legislators to challenge reproductive injustice, given that abortion access will now be controlled by states post-Dobbs. Further, my analytical approach to finding topoi that move toward a contingent telos has implications for additional justice-oriented movements.KEYWORDS: Reproductive justiceabortion rhetoricrhetorics of careheartbeat billsdissent AcknowledgmentsThank you to Stacey K. Sowards and two anonymous reviewers, as well as my advisor, Belinda A. Stillion Southard, and Celeste M. Condit for their thoughtful, supportive feedback and guidance in this essay’s development. Feedback from Kelly E. Happe and Roger Stahl, as well as Ray Bailey, Christina Deka, Carly Fabian, Brittany Knutson, and Nathan Rothenbaum, was incredibly helpful. Kesha James, Nick Lepp, and Alex Morales also read and provided invaluable feedback for countless iterations of this essay. The 2022 NCA DHS group led by Josh Gunn, Jade C. Huell, and Chuck Morris offered a supportive space to improve this piece in its more final stages. Finally, I thank my late father, Ken Downing, and my mother, Greer Downing, for encouraging and supporting my activist commitments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward, “Supreme Court Has Voted to Overturn Abortion Rights, Draft Opinion Shows,” Politico, May 2, 2022.2 Abigail Abrams, “These States Are Set to Ban Abortion If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned,” Time, May 3, 2022.3 Anne Ryman and Matt Wynn, “For Anti-Abortion Activists, Success of ‘Heartbeat’ Bills Was 10 Years in the Making,” The Center for Public Integrity, June 20, 2019.4 Bill Rankin, “Digging Deeper: Could Georgia Abortion Law Challenge Roe v. Wade?” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 26, 2019.5 Heartbeat bills were first drafted by Faith2Action’s founder, Janet Porter, who was instrumental in passing the first “Partial-Bir","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134970118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"De-whitening consent amidst COVID-19 rhetoric","authors":"Lamiyah Bahrainwala, Kate Lockwood Harris","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2255636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2255636","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article exposes four white-supremacist tactics embedded within extant consent discourse that became increasingly mobilized through the COVID-19 pandemic. These tactics include discourses of militarism as well as the dismissal of Black autonomy, reproductive access, and disability within existing consent rhetoric. We argue that these tactics create renewed exigence for de-whitening consent, and we build such a de-whitened consent framework by applying rhetorical scholarship on sexual violence to the 2020 Michigan anti-lockdown extremist protests, which were largely undertaken by white men. By exposing the white-supremacist tactics visible in these extremist protests, we highlight how pandemic-related rhetorics of bodily autonomy apply differently to Black, Muslim, disabled, trans, and migrant populations, and thus offer a de-whitened consent framework as a tool to chip away at white supremacist discourse.KEYWORDS: Consentbodily autonomysocial-distancingwhite supremacist violenceintersectionality Correction StatementThis article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 Jeanie Stephens. “(Updated) Video: Wood River Officer Made Men Leave Walmart Because They Wore Masks,” The Telegraph, October 6, 2022, https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Video-Wood-River-officer-has-men-leave-Walmart-15154393.php#photo-19209937.2 Ibid.3 James Auley, “France Mandates Masks to Control the Coronavirus. Burqas Remain Banned,” The Washington Post, October 6, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/france-face-masks-coronavirus/2020/05/09/6fbd50fc-8ae6-11ea-80df-d24b35a568ae_story.html.4 Samantha Tatro, “CBP Officer Received Sexual Favors for Allowing Undocumented Immigrants Into US: FBI,” NBC San Diego, September 8, 2016, https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/cbp-agent-received-sexual-favors-for-allowing-undocumented-immigrants-into-us-fbi-says/110589/.5 Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).6 Usha Lee McFarling, “‘Which Death Do They Choose?:’ Many Black Men Fear Wearing a Mask More than the Coronavirus,” Stat News, June 3, 2020, https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/03/which-deamany-black-men-fear-wearing-mask-more-than-coronavirus/; Fernando Alfonso III, “Why Some People of Color Say They Won’t Wear Homemade Masks,” CNN, April 7, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/us/face-masks-ethnicity-coronavirus-cdc-trnd/index.html; Tracy Jan, “Two Black Men Say They Were Kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing Protective Masks: Others Worry It Will Happen to Them,” The Washington Post, April 9, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/09/masks-racial-profiling-walmart-coronavirus/.7 As an example, Black Chicagoans died at more than twice the rate of their white counterparts, and early in the pandemic U.S. physician groups began to call f","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136023779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The U.S. American left and reverse moral exceptionalism: when do villains become heroes?","authors":"Noor Ghazal Aswad","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2250580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2250580","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and those on the U.S. American left who might gather in solidarity with them. I explicate “reverse moral exceptionalism” as a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and which positions the United States (U.S.) as a singular source of evil in the world. Based on an ethnocentrism that approaches the world from a position of dominance, reverse moral exceptionalism saturates the space available for others and induces the inability to listen to the testimony of others. Cartesian “either-or” logics situate all non-white state actors as inherently colonized and by extension, all colonial brown actors emerge as apolitical victims. I argue that when whiteness is only understood in racially provincial terms, it distorts understandings of inter-racial collusion in the transnational context. I attend to the unlikely ways in which whiteness and its concomitant forms of exceptionalism permeate U.S. American nationalist subjectivities, setting the groundwork for an anti-colonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes and brings about indifference to grassroots revolutionary discourse and the micropolitics of resistance.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91036590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The evolution of mathematics: a rhetorical approach","authors":"C. Colombini","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2227426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2227426","url":null,"abstract":"Themes of the strange and surprising have long suffused G. Mitchell Reyes’ scholarly juxtapositions of mathematics and rhetoric. Take his 2005 study of Newton and Leibniz, which pierces the Infinitesimal as a constitutive concept that enabled an empirically impossible task—one cannot really sum an infinite of imaginary rectangles occupying the space under a curved line—with the uncanny force of its explosion into unpredictable intellectual circuits. Or the incisive review “Stranger Relations,” which muses that to enter into the peculiar interface of rhetoric, mathematics, and culture is to pass “outside our alphabetic comfort zones to the edges of the symbolic, where humans and nonhumans meet” (489). Or the recent Arguing with Numbers (with James Wynn) and the chapter that transports us from the classical estrangement of rhetoric and mathematics into rich veins of transdisciplinary work that discern how complex calculations, quantitative quasi-logics, and mathematical semiotics dually reflect and incline rhetorical activity. The stunning impetus of mathematization across disciplines, the formidable potency of numbers in political debate, and the enigmatic power of abstruse algorithms all yield a clear (if not uncontroversial) mandate: “rhetorical scholars can and should make a sustained and coordinated effort to study the rhetorical dimensions of mathematics” (2). Yet if Reyes has long held that the strange and surprising must draw rhetoric toward coherent inquiry, then The Evolution of Mathematics brings this refrain into a new fullness of dimension. The book begins with the same indisputable exigence as Arguing—the fact of our existence at a moment in which mathematical discourses suffuse all facets of social life. Yet here we are called to deeper reflection on how these phenomena “bespeak the strangeness of our world” (2), building on and breaking with the past to radically recompose conditions in ways Reyes describes so poignantly as to be worth citing at length:","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"35 1","pages":"305 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89794256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global Rhetorical Traditions","authors":"Scott R. Stroud","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2230728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2230728","url":null,"abstract":"The interdisciplinary field of rhetorical studies has grown increasingly aware that the arts of speech, persuasion, and language use go far beyond the sources that used to represent the foundation as recently as a few decades ago. While exciting work continues to be done on the rhetorical traditions of Greece and Rome, more and more scholars are teaching and writing on rhetoric in its other forms outside of the western tradition. Global Rhetorical Traditions represents a pivotal moment in this evolving movement toward more global and international readings of what rhetoric is or what it could be. Serving as the first comprehensive textbook that features both commentary and primary sources, it is aptly positioned as a counterpart to Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg’s important text, The Rhetorical Tradition. While I cannot see many teachers using both of these texts—both are significant in size—this placing of international or global traditions of rhetoric on a parity with a popular book presenting the western tradition is significant. The textbook edited by Hui Wu and Tarez Samra Graban has a reasonable cost and an impressive scope. It can easily be used to teach courses that challenge and expand what and who we include in the rhetorical canon. It leverages a range of contemporary scholars from rhetorical studies to create a research-intensive textbook that will stimulate the scholars who teach with it and the students who use it. The design of Global Rhetorical Traditions is useful for teachers who want to design and implement courses in global, “non-western,” or international rhetoric. My attempt at putting labels on the sort of course this book fits reveals the tensions at the heart of this project in global rhetoric. “Rhetoric” has been long tethered to its Greek concepts, debates, and terms of art. Applying the term and its conceptual baggage to other traditions both offers the potential to build valuable bridges to other lines of thought that ethnocentrism and disciplinary habits might blind us to and risks missing the insights and unique aspects of those traditions. In the general introduction to the book, Graban clearly lays out the choices made by the editors to recover traditions and treatises as rhetorical that we have missed in the West, even if those traditions do not use “rhetoric” or a clear equivalent term. The volume aims to build bridges and create meaningful points of contact, so such a synthetic approach is justified. Graban’s introduction also shows the emphasis on cultural and linguistic sensitivity that the volume will prioritize when curating and commenting on its myriad primary sources. All are translated into English, but the editors and the individual commentators make a point of showing the presence of nuance and complexity in the original texts. Drawing on Jerry Won Lee’s notion of “semioscape,” the introduction honestly reckons with the challenges and choices of organizing such a volume. The book is largely divide","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"118 1","pages":"298 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89349003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}