Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE
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 invited 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....
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This book will provide the first collection of original research and scholarship on uniquely Western Hemispheric rhetorics.
Preface Damián Baca ixAcknowledgments xi1 te-ixtli: The "Other Face" of the Americas Damián Baca 12 Rhetoric of the First "Indians": The Taínos of the Second Voyage of Columbus Victor Villanueva 153 Imperialist Rhetorics in Puerto Rican Nationalist Narratives Erika Gisela Abad Merced 214 Spanish Scripts Colonize the Image: Inca Visual Rhetorics Rocío Quispe-Agnoli 415 Translating Nahua Rhetoric: Sahagún's Nahua Subjects in Colonial Mexico Cristián Roa de la Carrera 696 Practicing Methods in Ancient Cultural Rhetorics: Uncovering Rhetorical Action in Moche Burial Rituals Laurie Gries 897 Rhetoric and Resistance in Hawai'i: How Silenced Voices Speak Out in Colonial Contexts Georganne Nordstrom 1178 Rhetoric, Interrupted: La Malinche and Nepantlisma Damián Baca 1439 In Search of the Invisible World: Uncovering Mesoamerican Rhetoric in Contemporary Mexico Tracy Brandenburg 15310 "When They Awaken": Indigeneity, Miscegenation, and Anticolonial Visuality Dylan A. T. Miner 16911 Spirit Glyphs: Reimagining Art and Artist in the Work of Chicana Tlamatinime Laura E. Pérez 19712 Los Puentes Stories: The Rhetorical Realities of Electronic Literacy Sponsors and Gateways on the US.-Mexico Border from 1920 to 2001 John Scenters-Zapico 22713 Las Cobijas/The Blankets Rafael Jesús González 255Contributors 259Index 265
\ From the Publisher\ "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 contributions to rhetoric, broadly defined, in this decade. This collection extends beyond long standing, abstract postmodern critiques of classical canons of rhetoric to concrete engagements of multiple rhetorical practices from selected cultures in the Americas. Rhetoricians of every stripe, but particularly New Rhetoricians, will find within this collection extensive and newly presented materials. I strongly recommend this book for the voices it exposes from groups of people who have been deemed voiceless in the Euro-American rhetorical imagination, for the further epistemological breadth it will add to the broadening field of rhetoric, for the potential material benefits it offers on a local, national, and global scale pedagogically and politically.”--David G. Holmes, Professor of English and Blanche E. Seaver Professor in Humanities, Pepperdine University and Author of Revisiting Racialized Voice \ \
