1st Edition

Regional Rhetorics Real and Imagined Spaces

Edited By Jenny Rice Copyright 2014
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and literary. This collection examines "rhetorical regionalism," or the relationships we have to physical regions and the idea of regionality. Regional rhetorics are more than simply the fact of local conditions in certain spaces. They are the ways people... Read more

1. From Architectonic to Tectonics: Introducing Regional Rhetorics Jenny Rice  2. The Meanings of Kansas: Rhetoric, Regions, and Counter Regions Dave Tell  3. ‘‘Raíces Americanas’’: Indigenist Art, América, and Arguments for Ecuadorian Nationalism Christa J. Olson  4. ‘‘A Child Born of the Land’’: The Rhetorical Aesthetic of Hawaiian Song Gregory Clark  5. ‘‘From the Arab Spring to Athens, From Occupy Wall Street to Moscow’’: Regional Accents and the Rhetorical Cartography of Power Ronald Walter Greene and Kevin Douglas Kuswa  6. Regionalization and the Construction of Ephemeral Co-Location Andrew Wood  7. Book Reviews Timothy Oleksiak, Diana I. Bowen and Isabel Gardette

Biography

Jenny Rice is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.