Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric

Casey Ryan Kelly

ISBN 10: 1433147904 / ISBN 13: 9781433147906

Published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc, US, 2018

About this Item

As survivors of genocide, mnemonicide, colonization, and forced assimilation, American Indians face a unique set of rhetorical exigencies in US public culture. Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities, including essays on the politics of public memory, culture and identity controversies, stereotypes and caricatures, mascotting, cinematic representations, and resistance movements and environmental justice. This volume brings together recognized scholars and emerging voices in a series of critical projects that question the intersections of civic identity, including how American indigenous rhetoric is complicated by or made more dynamic when refracted through the lens of gender, race, class, and national identity. The authors assembled in this project employ a variety of rhetorical methods, theories, and texts committed to the larger academic movement toward the decolonization of Western scholarship. This project illustrates the invaluable contributions of American Indian voices and perspectives to the study of rhetoric and political communication.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781433147906

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433147904
• ISBN 13: 9781433147906
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 525 grams

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Synopsis

As survivors of genocide, mnemonicide, colonization, and forced assimilation, American Indians face a unique set of rhetorical exigencies in US public culture. Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities, including essays on the politics of public memory, culture and identity controversies, stereotypes and caricatures, mascotting, cinematic representations, and resistance movements and environmental justice.

This volume brings together recognized scholars and emerging voices in a series of critical projects that question the intersections of civic identity, including how American indigenous rhetoric is complicated by or made more dynamic when refracted through the lens of gender, race, class, and national identity. The authors assembled in this project employ a variety of rhetorical methods, theories, and texts committed to the larger academic movement toward the decolonization of Western scholarship. This project illustrates the invaluable contributions of American Indian voices and perspectives to the study of rhetoric and political communication.

About the Author

Casey Ryan Kelly, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Public Culture at the University of Nebraska.

Jason Edward Black, Ph.D., University of Maryland, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.