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Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics

In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts--from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and Black women, Indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants--but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.

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Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics

In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts--from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and Black women, Indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants--but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.

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In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts--from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and Black women, Indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants--but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603295222
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Publication date: 12/15/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 348
File size: 3 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction Patricia Bizzell Lisa Zimmerelli 1

Part 1 Reframing Activist Issues

Kairos Matters: Reading Colin Kaepernick's Protest through the Lens of Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Meaghan Brewer 13

"Wake Work": Frances E. W. Harper, Ida B. Wells, and Embodied Black Feminist Rhetoric in Slavery and Its Aftermaths Julie Prebel 26

Analyzing the Methodist Debate over Women's Preaching with the Classical Interpretive Stases Martin Camper 39

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Rhetorical Missteps: Metonymy and Synecdoche in the Women's Suffrage Arguments Nancy Myers 51

The Late Abolitionist Rhetoric of Margaret Fuller: How She Changed Her Mind Mollie Barnes 64

The Rhetoric of Work and the Work of Rhetoric: Booker T. Washington's Campaign for Tuskegee and the Black South Paul Stob 76

"Nasty" Women, Progressive Causes, and the Rhetorical Refusals of Lillie D. White Wendy Hayden 89

More Than Mere Display: Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Patty Wilde 101

Arguing by Numbers: Charlotte Odium Smith's Fight for Recognition for Women Inventors Sarah Hallenbeck 112

Lucy Thompson's Ethos and the Yurok Fish Dam Ritual Elizabeth Lowry 124

Indigenous Speakers: "Race Traitors" or Rights Activists? Megan Vallowe 135

Put It in the Papers: Rhetorical Ecologies, Labor Rhetorics, and the Newsboys' Strike of 1899 Brian Fehler 149

Affection, Intimacy, and Labor Organizing: Queering Public Activism in the Long Nineteenth Century Brenda Glascott 163

Part 2 Locating Rhetorical Activities

Caricatures versus Character Studies: Helen Potter's Mimetic Advocacy for Women's Rights Angela G. Ray 179

Acting Like Rhetors: Women's Rights in Amateur Theatrical Performances Lisa Suter 192

Embroidering History: The Gendered Memorial Activism of the Daughters of the American Revolution Jessica Enoch 207

Beginning Again, Again: Monument Protest and Rhetorics of African American Memory Work Shevaun E. Watson 220

Archiving Our Own Historical Moments: Learning from the Disrupted Public Memory of Temperance Jessica A. Rose Lynée Lewis Gaillet 234

Aesthetic Daughter and Civic Mother: Collective Identity and the Visual-Verbal Rhetorics of the New Negro Woman Kristie S. Fleckenstein 249

Crypto-Feminist Enthymemes in the Periodical Texts of Louise Clappe and Fanny Fern Suzanne Bordelon Elizabethada A. Wright 265

Part 3 Listening for Contemporary Echoes

"Who Says What Is … Always Tells a Story": White Supremacist Rhetoric, Then and Now Patricia Roberts-Miller 279

The Rhetorical Legacies of Chinese Exclusion: Appeals, Protests, and Becoming Chinese American Morris Young 290

Cultivating Civic Inter faith Activism: Rhetorical Education at Andover Settlement House Michael-John DePalma 304

The Long Nineteenth Century and the Bend toward Justice Jacqueline Jones Royster 318

Notes on Contributors 333

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