|9780822968191|Global Rhetorics and Power Transformation|Zhu argues that all rhetorics participate in the dynamics of power. It is pivotal to address how to subvert the systematic production of the Other, a power structure that is marked by an oppositional and essentialist understanding of subject positions and power relations—a structure that is reproduced in the West/non-West power hierarchy. Zhu proposes interconnectivity as a frame of power transformation. Interconnectivity stands for a relating-yet-separating relationship where difference and similarity jostle with one another in a way that moments of interdependence become more possible. It fosters a new discursive order of interdependence where there is…

|9780822949121|Global Rhetorics and Power Transformation|Zhu argues that all rhetorics participate in the dynamics of power. It is pivotal to address how to subvert the systematic production of the Other, a power structure that is marked by an oppositional and essentialist understanding of subject positions and power relations—a structure that is reproduced in the West/non-West power hierarchy. Zhu proposes interconnectivity as a frame of power transformation. Interconnectivity stands for a relating-yet-separating relationship where difference and similarity jostle with one another in a way that moments of interdependence become more possible. It fosters a new discursive order of interdependence where there is…

|9780822968214|Reckoning with Imperial Legacies in Feminist Rhetorical Theory|Beyond Affirmation inspires feminist rhetorical scholarship to shift attention from the speech and action of individual rhetors to analysis of how and with what consequence rhetorics circulate. The book considers the rise and historicizes feminist rhetorical theory in the political moment of the Cold War. Beyond Affirmation attends to the rhetorical legacies of the Cold War and its imperialist project, showing how sentimentality subsumed the US academy and dominant feminist rhetorical method of recovery, resulting in the creation of exceptional rhetorical figures. Demonstrating politics of recovery work, chapters offer new methods for the…

|9780822947943|Reckoning with Imperial Legacies in Feminist Rhetorical Theory|Beyond Affirmation inspires feminist rhetorical scholarship to shift attention from the speech and action of individual rhetors to analysis of how and with what consequence rhetorics circulate. The book considers the rise and historicizes feminist rhetorical theory in the political moment of the Cold War. Beyond Affirmation attends to the rhetorical legacies of the Cold War and its imperialist project, showing how sentimentality subsumed the US academy and dominant feminist rhetorical method of recovery, resulting in the creation of exceptional rhetorical figures. Demonstrating politics of recovery work, chapters offer new methods for the…

|9780822968177|Rhetoric has been concerned with truth from the beginning. Beginning at least with Plato, rhetoric often has been blamed for the death of truth. And the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has been skeptical of easy understandings of truth. Meanwhile, hostility to truth seems to be doing a lot of damage, even if truth itself may never have been as reliable as hoped. The idea of post-truth poses systemic problems for rhetoric’s traditional concerns. Active obfuscation, negation of truth, and even truth-indifference are certainly not new. But the past couple of decades have seen a proliferation and pervasiveness of falsities,…