Rhetoric Across Borders

Synopsis

Introduction / Anne Teresa Demo -- Between Materiality And Rhetoric. 1. Material Rhetoric And The Ritual Transfiguration Of Impure Flesh In The Purification Rules (dead Sea Scrolls 4qtohorot A And 4qtohorot B) / Bruce Mccomiskey -- 2. Rhetorical And Material Boundaries: Animal Agency And Presence In Small Oceanic Islands / Peter Goggin -- 3. Smellscapes, Social Justice, And Olfactory Perception / Lisa L. Phillips -- 4. Blurring The Boundaries: Projective Embodiment In Videogames / Jeffrey B. Holmes -- Crossing Cultures: Refiguring Audience, Author, Text And Borders. 5. Toward A New Understanding Of Audience In The Medieval Arabic Translation Movement: The Case Of Al-kindi's Statement On The Soul / Maha Baddar -- 6. All Nations, One Blood, Three Hundred Years: Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, And Civil Rights Rhetoric As Transatlantic Abolitionism / Keith D. Miller -- 7. Carry Your Green Book With You: The Green Book As Representative Anecdote / Elizabethada A. Wright -- 8. Gertrude Stein On The Borders Of Identity / Patrick Shaw -- 9. (re)bordering The Scholarly Imaginary: The State And Future Of Rhetorical Border Studies / Antonio Tomas De La Garza, D. Robert Dechaine, & Kent A. Ono -- Remapping The Political. 10. Peacemaking And The Chancery In Medieval Cairo: Revisiting Medieval Arabic Rhetoric / Rasha Diab -- 11. What It Is To Be A Queenslander: The Australian State Parliamentary Motion Of Condolence On Natural Disasters As Epideictic And Regional Rhetoric / Rosemary Williamson -- 12. Going Digital: Rhetorical Strategies In The Enhanced State Of The Union / Jeffrey A. Kurr -- 13. Redrawing The Gop Borders? Women, Reproduction, And The Political Landscape Of The 2014 Midterm Election / Lora Arduser & Amy Koerber -- Contesting Boundaries: Science, Technology, And Nature. 14. Localized Science Sentinels: Tedx And The Shared Norms Of Scientific Integrity / Ron Von Burg -- 15. Citizen Science In Lower Hood Canal: The Emergence Of The Lower Hood Canal Watershed Coalition (lhcwc) As A Forum For Environmental Education, Policy Development And The Shaping Of Political Will / John Angus Campbell -- 16. The Native As Not So Creative Commonplace In The Borderland Of Environmental Writing / Alexis F. Piper -- 17. Technologies Of Mediation And The Borders And Boundaries Of Human-nonhuman Animal Relationships In Marine Species Advocacy / Amy D. Propen -- Teaching Across Divides. 18. What Did You Do In The War, Mommy? Competing Constructs In The Women In Military Service For America Memorial / Amy Milakovic -- 19. Service-learning In The Borderlands At An Hispanic Serving Institution In South Texas / Susan Garza -- 20. Assessing The New Media Rhetoric: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries / Kathleen Marie Baldwin -- 21. Positioning Rhetoric At The Heart Of The Matter: Engaging Faculty, Engaging Students / Jane Detweiler, Margaret R. Laware, Thomas P. Miller, & Patti Wojahn -- In Conversation: Fragments And Provocations. 22. Fragments From In Conversation: Critical Rhetorics Of Race / Keith Gilyard & Kent A. Ono -- 23. Fragments From In Conversation: Rhetoric And Activism / Dana Cloud & Seth Kahn -- 24. Fragments From Coalitional Gestures, Third Spaces, And Rhetorical Imaginaries: A Dialogue In Queer Chican@ Feminism / Karma R. Chávez & Adela C. Licona -- 25. In Conversation: The Rhetoric Of Disability And Access / James L. Cherney & Margaret Price -- 26. Fragment From What Role Can/should Academic Journals Play In The Future Of Rhetoric Scholarship / Barbara Biesecker, James Jasinski, & Kelly Ritter -- 27. Fragments From Rhetorical Theory: Questions, Provocations, Futures / Bradford Vivian & Diane Davis. Edited By Anne Teresa Demo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.