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{"title":"Stripped: reading the erotic body","authors":"E. Buckner","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2227427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2227427","url":null,"abstract":"Maggie M. Werner’s debut monograph, Stripped, is a timely read for scholars of all stripes, providing tools to interpret erotic communication in an era of resurgent sex panic. Building on 15 years of autoethnographic and ethnographic research at neo-burlesque shows and strip clubs—including interviews she conducted with performers, fieldnotes produced through participant observation, and a close read of digital publications—Werner follows Branstetter in characterizing her work as a form of “promiscuous research,” refusing the sanctity of tradition in favor of “sleeping around with all the other disciplines.” Her work is squarely concerned with expanding what rhetoric deems permissible to study—often critiquing its logocentrism— and draws on insights from Gender and Sexuality Studies, Performance Studies, and Sociology. Expanding on nascent scholarship regarding “rhetoric of the body,” Werner notes how there is a conspicuous absence of the body in rhetorical criticism and, when it is present, the focus is not typically on sexuality; indeed, much work deals with “rhetoric about the body” rather than conceiving of “bodies as generators of rhetoric” themselves. In attempting to theorize “the body’s material, symbolic communication,” Werner cautions against the application of logocentric methodologies to rhetoric that exceeds textuality, arguing that it “subordinates gestural communication to the linguistic,” deprioritizing the kinesthetic and erotic messages conveyed by bodies. Though her work focuses specifically on moments of intentional erotic communication (neo-burlesque, stripping, and sex work activism), she frames her research as an “invitation or provocation to scholars of the rhetorical body,” providing a set of heuristics for rhetoricians to critique the body without reducing it to discourse. Notably, the first three chapters do not make an explicit feminist intervention in debates over sex work; rather, they work to “disrupt oppressive/empowering as the sole (or even enlightening) critical standard for analyzing erotic performance.” While openly admitting her feminist slant, Werner argues that “engaging in body criticism” is necessary to counter “a rhetoric of existential denial” by insisting on the lives lived beneath debates. In chapter 1,Werner situates her analysis of embodied erotic rhetoric in the canon of delivery. Working through Aristotle and Cicero, Werner notes how the oral tradition treats the masculine subject as its unspoken default. Instead of uncritically extending this tradition, she places herself alongside “feminist recoveries of delivery” in considering “those performances that classical rhetoric would not.” Through analyzing neo-burlesque shows, she argues that delivery is not merely how a message is received by an audience but rather a series of coproduced meanings as “many performers build interaction with audience members into their acts, break the fourth wall, and improvise moments based on audience feedback.” Afte","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"76 22 1","pages":"302 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86396865","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":"Misogynoir and the public woman: analog and digital sexualization of women in public from the Civil War to the era of Kamala Harris","authors":"Cecilia Cerja, Nicole D. Nave, K. Winfrey, Catherine Helen Palczewski, L. Hahner","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2192262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2192262","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74464728","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":"“White man's road through Black man's home”: decolonial organizing in the metropole","authors":"K. Maddux","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2208406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2208406","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Between 1965 and 1973, a coalition of local Washington, D.C., activists, organized as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC), prevented construction of two freeways that would have destroyed neighborhoods and reshaped local communities. This essay reads their rhetorical practices as an example of decolonial delinking. To do so, I first re-tell the story of Washington, D.C., as an ongoing project of coloniality characterized by three dominant colonial habits: fostering division between local residents, articulating technocratic reasoning, and denying a local sense of place. Then I show activists overcoming those colonial logics by (1) building a multi-racial, cross-class coalition that modeled self-governance; (2) reclaiming the city as an organic being; and (3) engaging in rhetorical placemaking to imagine D.C. as home. This example of the ECTC orients our attention to de/coloniality as layered, ongoing processes, as well as the way that coloniality has facilitated our democratic imaginary symbolized by the nation's capital.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77925249","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":"A market for civil rights: whiteness as property, colorblindness, and the rhetoric of school choice","authors":"R. Asen","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2193239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2193239","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this essay, I focus on the advocacy of Betsy DeVos as a prominent exemplar of a larger trend among U.S. pro-market education advocates asserting school choice as a contemporary stage of the nation’s long struggle for civil rights. I argue that as DeVos championed her cause, she repurposed this right from a civil right seeking justice and equality to a property right serving privilege and the protection of whiteness as property. Engaging the foundational work of Cheryl Harris on whiteness as property, I explicate whiteness as property as a critical resource for rhetorical scholarship that illuminates the mutually reinforcing dynamics of racial and economic inequality and privilege as they operate in public life to enable and constrain efficacious participation in various publics. Discourses of colorblindness render market-based action as fair and neutral by decontextualizing people and policy and obfuscating the dynamics of power. My analysis of DeVos’s advocacy focuses on four themes: how DeVos constitutes students as individual market actors; how she presents herself as the heir of civil rights activists; how her vision of education freedom operates as market freedom; and how DeVos represents public schools as coercive government institutions.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"10 1","pages":"276 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89156166","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":"An uncanny architrope: impossible ghosts of empire at the Brontë Parsonage Museum","authors":"Faber McAlister","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2193236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2193236","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers the “architrope” as a means for apprehending rhetorical figures on a symbolic landscape (or “tropography”). I argue that ethical critique of public memory places requires more than reading visual representations and envisioning resistive viewer agencies. Inspired by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s declaration that it should not be possible to remember Victorian England’s women writers without recalling the “worlding” functions of colonial literature in British imperialism, I examine how the Brontë Parsonage Museum should unworld and otherworld its memoryscape. Adding spatial dimension to visual rhetoric, I map tropographic turns where visitors should not only unsettle histories but also confront aporias of postcolonial, feminist, and queer memories. Although rhetorical scholars celebrate the radical potential of the uncanny and the subjunctive mood, my analysis shows that uncanniness can be commodified, and colonizing narratives necessitate overt negation. Remapping commonplaces of museums and memorials therefore requires replacing rhetorical theory’s acquiescence to possibility with emplaced attunement to impossible demands of the forgotten and unrepresentable dead.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"14 1","pages":"230 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87460456","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":"Whistleblower epideictic and the rejuvenation of the fourth estate","authors":"Alan Chu","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2192497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2192497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The historical partnership between whistleblowers and journalists has produced some of the most consequential news stories of the 20th and 21st centuries. However, this partnership has also experienced deep ruptures, most notably after the attacks on 9/11 that reordered the fourth estate’s (the press) approach to publishing stories on national intelligence and politically powerful figures. While sensational developments in information accessibility such as WikiLeaks and online document repositories have meaningfully changed the activity of newsgathering and how stories are published, this article instead looks to the more delicate activity of whistleblower rhetoric and its role in recalibrating the place of the fourth estate in a liberal democracy. What follows is an analysis of how a small, vulnerable, and otherwise heterogeneous group uses a rhetoric of praise and blame to achieve a vision of the fourth estate’s essential role in the world.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"118 1","pages":"211 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76800324","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":"Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America","authors":"Anthony J. Irizarry","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2201435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2201435","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"109 1","pages":"206 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85482040","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":"What it Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture","authors":"Lauren L. Buisker","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2201433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2201433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"35 1","pages":"199 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74631780","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 racial shock of abolitionist John Brown","authors":"Jay P. Childers, Lisa Corrigan","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2187746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2187746","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Abolitionist John Brown remains a cultural touchstone over 160 years after his execution for leading the Harpers Ferry Raid in October 1859, largely because that event and Brown’s behavior after it played a part in leading the nation into civil war. To understand that legacy and his role in sparking the Civil War, this article examines the discursive field that animated around Brown within the context of the racial sensorium of his time. We argue Brown still attracts interest because he was a distinctive antebellum racial figure who catalyzed major shifts in the country’s racial sensory landscape by offering a mode of radical whiteness grounded in white mobility, the use of violence, electrifying words and deeds, and shockingly bold intimacies with Black people. Ultimately, by examining the discursive field that surrounded Brown from his time in Kansas to after his execution, we demonstrate how his radical sensibilities shifted the somatic politics of racial confrontation in the antebellum period and show that John Brown became an amplifying cultural force through which both Northerners and Southerners felt the question of slavery in new ways.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"109 1","pages":"254 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85383360","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":"Racialized temporalities and rhetorical violence","authors":"Lisa A. Flores","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2165233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2165233","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Reflecting upon the words of Professors De Genova, Lozano, and Yam, this essay suggests that rhetorical scholars attend to the intersections between rhetorical violence and rhetorical temporalities. The varied projects that emerge in this forum together suggest that the racialized temporalities of violence rely upon temporalities of relentless and repetition. Together, relentlessness and repetition make race. They do so, within white supremacy and antiblackness, by demanding a particular racist recognition, a seeing and sensing of race premised in antiblackness.","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":"17 1","pages":"103 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74667530","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}