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Rhetoric and sovereignty: Refiguring rhetorical agency in works by Native authors.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rhetoric and sovereignty: Refiguring rhetorical agency in works by Native authors./
Author:	Miles, John D.
Description:	148 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Susan Romano.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-09A.
Subject:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3329463
ISBN:	9780549825593

Rhetoric and sovereignty: Refiguring rhetorical agency in works by Native authors.
Miles, John D.

Rhetoric and sovereignty: Refiguring rhetorical agency in works by Native authors. - 148 p.

Adviser: Susan Romano.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2008.

In 2003, the Alliance of Rhetoric Societies (ARS) brought scholars together from rhetoric, literature, communications and other scholarly fields at the Conference on the Status and Future of Rhetorical Studies. One of the working groups at this conference discussed the question "How ought we to understand rhetorical agency?" From this conference and subsequent writings on agency, there has been a call to retheorize rhetorical agency. The introduction of postmodern or posthumanist theories of subjectivity has lead to a disconnect between the specific rhetorical act and agency. My project suggests that we are at a theoretical impasse where the argument over subjectivity is crippling the ways we understand agency. By taking into account the ways Native authors write about language I advance contemporary theories of agency in three ways. First, I look at the classical and contemporary theories of topoi , agency, and publics. Alongside rhetorical theory I suggest that Gerald Vizenor's work on survivance and transmotion may open new terrain in rhetorical theory in relation to topoi, agency. I do so by reading texts by nineteenth century and early twentieth century Native authors for the ways they use, interrogate, and re-define the topoi circulating in dominant discourse about Natives to gain agency in public discourse. Finally, I discuss how sovereignty has become a topos in contemporary Native discourse and in fact offer us a new understanding of the strategic use of counterpublic discourse. Doing so I hope to enrich rhetorical theory with Native authors' ideas about language use and account some of the ways marginalized rhetors enter public discourse to promote social change, and look to the ways rhetorical theory can inform writing by Native people.

ISBN: 9780549825593Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

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