Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference

Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference challenges the Eurocentric perspective from which the field of rhetoric is traditionally viewed. Taking a step beyond the creation of alternative rhetorics that maintain the centrality of the European and Greco-Roman tradition, this volume argues on behalf of pluriversal rhetorics that coexist as equally important on their own terms. A timely addition to the respected Landmark Essays series, it will be invaluable to students of history of rhetoric, literacy, composition, and writing studies.

Table of Contents:
Section 1 Foundations Rose, Mike. "The Poem is a Substitute for Love." Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America’s Underprepared. (New York: Free Press; New York: Simon & Schuster), 1989. 67-83. Gilyard, Keith. "Rapping, Reading, and Role Playing." Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. 27-41. Malinowitz, Harriet. "Lesbian and Gay Studies: Landscape of an (Inter)Discipline." Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1995. 45-64. Lyons, Scott Richard. "Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?" College Composition and Communication 51, no. 3 (2000): 447-68. Brandt, Deborah, Ellen Cushman, Anne Ruggles Gere, Anne Herrington, Richard E. Miller, Victor Villanueva, Min Zhan Lu, and Gesa Kirsch. "The Politics of the Personal: Storying Our Lives against the Grain." College English 64, no. 1 (2001): 41-62. Section 2 Un-othering Difference Flores, Lisa A. "Creating Discursive Space through a Rhetoric of Difference: Chicana Feminists Craft a Homeland." Quarterly Journal of Speech 82, no. 2 (1996): 142-56. Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, Linda Feldmeier White, Patricia A. Dunn, Barbara A. Heifferon, and Johnson Cheu. "Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability." College Composition and Communication 52, no. 3 (2001): 368-98. Richardson, Elaine. "Introduction: don’t we still have to prove our humanity?" and "African American-centered rhetoric, composition, and literacy: theory and research." African American Literacies. London: Routledge, 2003. 1-5, 95-113. Pritchard, Eric Darnell, and Maria L. Bibbs. "Sista’ Outsider: Queer Women of Color and Hip Hop." Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology. Edited by Gwendolyn Pough, Mark Anthony Neal, and Joan Morgan. Mira Loma: Parker Publishing, 2007. 19-40. Baca, Damián. "Preface." and "Mestiz@ Scripts and the Rhetoric of Subversion." Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations and the Territories of Writing. New York: Palgrave MacMillan: 2008. xv-xviii, 1-15. Section 3 Interventions within Difference Jarrett, Susan. "Teaching Across and Within Differences." College Composition and Communication 43, no. 3 (1992): 315-18. Mailloux, Steven. "Rhetorical Studies: Future Prospects." Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism and American Cultural Politics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. 182-96. Ratcliffe, Krista. "Rhetorical listening: A Trope for Interpretive Invention and a ‘Code of Cross-Cultural Conduct.’" College Composition and Communication 51, no. 2 (1999): 195-224. Mao, LuMing. "Beyond Bias, Binary, and Border: Mapping out the Future of Comparative Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 43, no. 3 (2013): 209-25. Horner, Bruce, Min-Zhan Lu, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and John Trimbur. "Language Difference in Writing: Toward a Translingual Approach." College English 73, no. 3 (2011): 303–21.