1st Edition

Comparative Rhetoric The Art of Traversing Rhetorical Times, Places, and Spaces

Edited By LuMing Mao Copyright 2014
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

Rhetoric and Communication scholars have recently made notable advances in discovering and/or recovering rhetorical practices of various under-represented and under-recognized cultures. Building on this growing body of scholarship, this book initiates a new line of interdisciplinary inquiry. By turning attention to how histories of cross-border and cross-cultural contacts mobilize different... Read more

1. Beyond Bias, Binary, and Border: Mapping out the Future of Comparative Rhetoric LuMing Mao

2. Comparative Rhetoric, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms: A Geopolitical Approach Bo Wang

3. Tied to a Tree: Culture and Self-Reflexivity Mary Garrett

4. Uchi/Soto in Japan: A Global Turn Dominic Ashby

5. Comparative Rhetoric, Egyptology, and the Case of Akhenaten Carol Lipson

6. Learning from India’s Nyāya Rhetoric: Debating Analogically through Vāda’s Fruitful Dialogue Keith Lloyd

7. Tao Trek: One and Other in Comparative Rhetoric, A Response C. Jan Swearingen

Biography

LuMing Mao is Chair and Professor in the Department of English, Miami University, Ohio, USA. He is the author of Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric and co-editor, with Morris Young, of Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric, recipient of Honorable Mention for the MLA 2008 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize. His essays on comparative rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, and Asian American rhetoric have appeared in book chapters and in major rhetoric and composition journals.