Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2227427
E. Buckner
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
玛吉·m·沃纳(Maggie M. Werner)的处女作《剥离》(strip)是各路学者的及时读物，为在性恐慌卷土重来的时代解读情爱交流提供了工具。基于对新滑剧表演和脱衣舞俱乐部15年的自我民族志和民族志研究——包括她对表演者的采访，通过参与观察产生的实地记录，以及对数字出版物的仔细阅读——维尔纳跟随布兰斯泰特，将她的工作描述为一种“混杂的研究”，拒绝传统的神圣性，而喜欢“与所有其他学科混在一起”。她的作品直接关注于扩展修辞学认为允许研究的内容——经常批评其逻各斯中心主义——并借鉴了性别与性研究、表演研究和社会学的见解。扩展了关于“身体修辞”的新生学术，维尔纳注意到，在修辞批评中，身体是如何明显缺席的，当它出现时，关注的焦点通常不是性;事实上，很多研究都是关于“身体的修辞”，而不是将“身体本身视为修辞的创造者”。在试图将“身体的物质、符号交流”理论化的过程中，维尔纳告诫人们不要将语义中心主义的方法应用于超越文本性的修辞学，认为它“使手势交流服从于语言交流”，剥夺了身体传达的动觉和情色信息的优先级。虽然她的作品特别关注有意的情色交流(新滑剧、脱衣和性工作激进主义)，但她将自己的研究定义为“对修辞体学者的邀请或挑衅”，为修辞学家提供了一套启发，以批评身体，而不将其简化为话语。值得注意的是，前三章并没有对性工作的辩论做出明确的女权主义干预;相反，他们的工作是“打破压迫/授权作为分析性爱表现的唯一(甚至是启发性的)关键标准。”虽然维尔纳公开承认自己的女权主义倾向，但她认为，通过坚持辩论之下的生活，“参与身体批评”对于反对“否认存在主义的修辞”是必要的。在第一章中，维尔纳将她对具身情色修辞的分析置于传递的经典中。通过亚里士多德和西塞罗的研究，维尔纳注意到口头传统如何将男性主体视为其未言明的默认。她没有不加批判地延续这一传统，而是将自己置于“女权主义的交付恢复”的立场上，考虑“那些古典修辞不会做的表演”。通过对新滑稽剧的分析，她认为，传递不仅仅是观众接受信息的方式，而是一系列共同产生的意义，因为“许多表演者将与观众的互动融入到他们的表演中，打破第四堵墙，根据观众的反馈即兴创作。”在仔细地追溯了新滑稽剧表演的历史，它与杂耍的对应，以及它与吟游诗人的关系之后，沃纳概述了四个传递的拓扑:类型，身体，空间和观众。流派指的是表演的类型，这有助于区分“不同类型的脱衣”，并指出，对新滑稽剧的艺术评价与对俱乐部脱衣的诋毁是一致的，因为各自的流派被不同地分类。身体不仅具有“动作、衣着和声音”的特征，还具有“种族、性别和民族”的特征。空间“考虑了谁被授权说话(身体)，以什么方式(类型)，对谁(观众)等重叠的问题。”观众不仅与观看表演的人对话，还与“观众和修辞家共同创造话语”的互动动态对话。第二章论述了类型批评与情色舞蹈的关系。与其将新滑稽剧和赤裸上身的俱乐部脱衣分为本质上不同的类别，
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Pub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2192262
Cecilia Cerja, Nicole D. Nave, K. Winfrey, Catherine Helen Palczewski, L. Hahner
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2208406
K. Maddux
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2193239
R. Asen
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2193236
Faber McAlister
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-04DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2192497
Alan Chu
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2201435
Anthony J. Irizarry
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2201433
Lauren L. Buisker
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Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2187746
Jay P. Childers, Lisa Corrigan
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2023.2165233
Lisa A. Flores
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.
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