Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0243
Eric Detweiler
Abstract In recent attempts to ban the teaching of critical race theory in American schools and universities, students’ feelings have served as a frequent rationale and a subject of debate. Building on rhetoricians’ long-standing interest in emotion and its ties to movement and pedagogy, I track the rhetorical circulation of students’ feelings in and around critical race theory bans. I argue that such tracking helps elucidate the racialized role students’ emotions have played and continue to play in public education, with White students’ feelings positioned as a precious resource that must be protected from the dangerous feelings of others. I also consider how the circulation of students’ feelings can help rhetoricians rethink the distinctions and connections among the traditional branches of rhetoric.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0177
Kaitlyn Patia
Abstract This article analyzes the role that travel and labor played in the coalitional activism of the Third World Women’s Alliance, a pathbreaking organization formed by women of color in 1970 and active through 1980. In it, I attend to the alliance’s feminist movements, how its members’ activism and commitments were lived, performed, and embodied. Specifically, I focus on its members’ travel to California to work with the United Farm Workers and to Cuba to work with the Venceremos Brigade. I explore the rhetorical capacity of movement and bodies in motion to transform feminist activism. This capacity—which I term rhetorical fluidity—names the always-ongoing processes of transforming what is possible that accompany that which moves. Understanding rhetorical fluidity and tracing its contours can demonstrate how activists and social movements can harness this latent power as a potential site of energy to sustain long-term struggles against oppression.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0230
Ben Wetherbee
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and its constituent controversies illustrate how the epideictic motives of mutual imagination and “showing forth” contribute irrevocably to rhetorical motion. Imagistic representations of disease like the Center for Disease Control’s morphological depiction of the SARS-CoV-2 “spike protein” form illustrative metonyms that reduce or “essentialize” complex networks of sociomedical phenomena into tangible shorthand, priming audiences for deliberative action. Images of symptomatic suffering that characterize diseases like polio, measles, and the common cold viscerally orient audiences to bodily suffering, compelling the sort of imaginative, deliberative vision that Aristotle terms phantasia. The spike protein obfuscates human suffering by substituting the euphemistically ineffable realm of microbiology. Journalists and medical communicators, therefore, bear an uncomfortable ethical imperative to represent metonymic suffering, not for its sensationalism or shock value, but for its epideictic capacity to prime or “turn” audiences toward meaningful deliberative action in support of real human well-being.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0189
Junyi Lv
In this article I offer an in motu rhetorical analysis of museums in the Anthropocene. Instead of discussing curations inside museums in detail, I examine spatial and rhetorical dialogues between the Jinhuagong National Mine Park, a fifty-year-old coal mine, and the Yungang Grottoes, a Unesco cultural heritage site. Pulling together threads from Heidegger and Chinese environmental philosophies, I redefine museum as spatial action with three entangled lines of action: building, dwelling, and saying. Unlike in previous studies of museum as active space, museum in motu turns museum into museuming—a gerund indicating ongoing actions adapting to contingencies. Through museuming, human beings keep exploring the meaning of building in diverse practices of dwelling and adapting to relational existence with the more-than-human world.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0152
Josie Portz
Abstract This article takes a pan-historiographic approach in its analysis of three collections of artifacts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Sri Lanka: a set of contact narratives compiled by both the colonizing Portuguese and the dominant people group of the island, the Sinhalese; correspondence between King Dharmapāla and Pope Gregory XIII; and correspondence between the Sinhalese poet Alagiyavanna Mukaveti and King Philip III. In bringing together narratives of first contact between colonizers and colonized and letters from members of the Sinhalese elite requesting the restitution of land by the Portuguese colonizers, this article showcases examples in which local Sri Lankans performed rhetorical resistance through subversive means. In examining these artifacts, I offer for consideration the concept of “phantom mobility,” a rhetorical strategy that creates the appearance (and sometimes the illusion) of movement. In this rhetorical strategy, movement is conceived in terms of proximity or distance in relation to persons, places, events, etc. In this article, I suggest that phantom mobility can help illuminate how rhetors navigate colonial power dynamics in ways that expand our reading of rhetorical texts.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0255
Carolyn D. Commer
Abstract This article argues for teaching the history of rhetoric using a historiographic approach—one informed by reading the Octalogs—to move students to inquire into how and why histories are written. It theorizes the pedagogical significance of the Octalogs in three ways: how they show students glimpses of images from rhetoric’s contested history, how they create a kind of productive confusion for students necessary for future learning and movement, and how they serve as a “disciplinary heuristic,” inspiring the invention of new research trajectories for students in the discipline. Drawing from retrospective interviews conducted with former graduate students who read the Octalogs, the article concludes by outlining eight benefits of an Octalogic pedagogy or a pedagogy that invites students to see histories of rhetoric as always in motu.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0135
Jennifer Keohane, Alessandra Beasley Von Burg
People move. Bodies move. Ideas move. Words move.The articles in this special issue of the Journal for the History of Rhetoric (JHR) emerged from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR) symposium conducted at the 2022 Rhetoric Society of America conference in Baltimore. The theme—“Rhetoric in motu”—came from the energy we wanted to capture, a reason to move attendees to risk coming to an in-person conference in the midst of an ongoing pandemic.When we gathered as an organizing committee in early 2021, we wanted to connect to “Excess!!!! in/and the History of Rhetoric,” the 2020 ASHR symposium that never was, as well as to previous ASHR gatherings. The theme of excess resonated with—maybe rebounded because of—the limits and restrictions with which we were still living in 2021, even as the medical marvel of vaccines was allowing a return to, well, movement. Stillness, stuckness, immobility, had been defining academic life for most of us. We taught and met on Zoom or not at all.Another past symposium theme (one from 2016) echoed back at us: “Rhetoric in Situ” (see Lamp 2017). Place-based, topos-driven rhetoric we knew, but maybe it was the innate desire to move, finally, that got us to “Rhetoric in Motu.” As scholars of mobility, migration, textuality, public memory, presidential rhetoric, visual and textile rhetoric, and of course the history of rhetoric, we had already been thinking and moving, but we all felt the energy behind the kinetic force of words and ideas. Still no more, we wanted to give symposium goers a reason to show up, possibly for the first time since the pandemic began, not as they were before, but as driven (yes, moved) by energeia. Community, comradery, and togetherness were, we felt, what ASHR symposium goers wanted, alongside the rigor and readiness of rhetoric.We decided to look at the now for expertise, inviting early career scholars whose research into the history and practices of rhetoric had been building on and against existing theories and methods. During the pandemic, they had limited opportunities to engage others while advancing their scholarship. The ASHR symposium provided the academic space for discussion.This was not the first time that ASHR has had an intentional focus on emerging and energizing research, on newness/nowness, but we still embraced a careful look at the future of the history of rhetoric. We see the in motu aspect of rhetoric as the most exciting newness of very carefully grounded historical research. Defining rhetoric as contingent, flexible, provocative, is not new. Yet the authors whose work appears in this special issue engage rhetoric as a concept that accelerates, gains momentum, through the places, times, and people in their work.The theoretical contributions in this special issue speak to all historians of rhetoric in their everyday academic and civic lives. How and why do words move others? Amplify? Energize? Effuse? Amalgamate? Take off (lift/luft)? Many of the authors in
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0165
Meg Itoh
Abstract I explore the ways in which practicing rhetorical analysis transnationally in motu reveals coalitional moments that were previously obfuscated by dominant narratives of rhetorical history. I offer rhetoric transnationally in motu as a method of engaging the mobility of artifacts across time and space, a method that, in turn, enables decentering the nation-state, tracing reverberations of anticolonial dissent, and threading fragments together by reading against and alongside the archival grain. To demonstrate this methodological approach, I analyze the protest technique of “snake-dancing” used by the Zengakuren in Japan and the Yippies in the United States. Although the Zengakuren and the Yippies were active in different time periods and in different geographic locations, by examining their uses of the same protest technique, I am able to suggest that the two groups shared a transnational coalitional moment in which they were fleetingly and intangibly connected through the same echoing reverberations of anticolonial dissent.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0140
Maryam Ahmadi
Abstract This article explores how Persian/ate rhetorical experiences and sensibilities constitute and are constituted by semicolonial modalities of empire. Building on global rhetorical history and an analysis of the work of the social reformer, historian, and linguist Ahmad Kasravi (1890–1946), I show how critical conceptions and configurations of speech emerge vis-à-vis the semicolonial bordering and ordering of the body politic and how these rhetorical formations at once resist and reproduce empire. Hailing from the liminal rhetorical space between the colonial and the noncolonial, namely, the sphere of influence, these configurations constitute what I call semicolonial rhetoric or a rhetorical sphere of influence.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0205
Elizabeth Ellis Miller
Abstract The catalog of the major marches held during the movement for Black freedom typically focuses on events of the 1960s: the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the 1965 March across the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, or James Meredith’s 1966 March against Fear. While the largest and best-remembered civil rights marches did indeed occur in the 1960s, the first national march of the movement took place in 1957 at an event held on the National Mall in Washington, DC: the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. To craft this demonstration, leaders invited activists to take up social, geographic, and spiritual movements, movements that relied on memory and prayer. This article analyzes the event through these three dimensions of movement and rethinks the significance of the Prayer Pilgrimage for rhetorical histories of civil rights and the march as protest tactic.
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