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Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE
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Hardcover. This book will provide the first collection of original research and scholarship on uniquely Western Hemispheric rhetorics. Editor(s): Baca, Damian; Villanueva, Victor. Num Pages: 270 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBW; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous rhetorics might have looked like and how their influences remain. The reader is invivted to recognize "the invention of the Americas," providing other ways to contemplate material life prior to contemporary capitalism, telling us about the global from long ago to current global capitalism. This book is the drop that will ripple, creating new lines of inquiry into language use within the Americas and the legacies of ... Read more
This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous rhetorics might have looked like and how their influences remain. The reader is invivted to recognize "the invention of the Americas," providing other ways to contemplate material life prior to contemporary capitalism, telling us about the global from long ago to current global capitalism. This book is the drop that will ripple, creating new lines of inquiry into language use within the Americas and the legacies of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230619036
SKU
V9780230619036
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DAMIÁN BACA is Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Mexican American studies at the University of Arizona, USA where he teaches comparative technologies of writing, American Indian rhetoric, Chicano and Latino literature, rhetoric in Mesoamerica and colonial México, globalization, and ancestral literacy. As a recipient of the NCTE Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Research Foundation and ... Read more
Reviews for Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE
"This collection offers a building block for future scholars to learn, examine, and build work that not only challenges the accepted notion that all rhetoric begins with the Greco-Roman tradition but also seeks to push Native scholarship further into respectful, ethical, and innovative directions." - Marcos Julian Del Hierro, SAIL"Rhetorics of the Americas will potentially be one of the finest ... Read more