Agency in the Margins - Stories of Outsider Rhetoric (Hardcover)

This collection attempts to answer the question of how do people who are defined as outsiders create agency? How do they become agents of change, of social, political, spiritual, and cultural power outside of those spaces that we traditionally understand as belonging to the powerful? The subjects in this collection vary: authors discuss contemporary hip-hop music, early twentieth-century literature, prison publications, post-Civil War treatment of free African Americans, queer culture, and more. They are loosely categorized as covering issues of race, class, gender, and contemporary issues of technology and globalization. The common thread in each essay is the study of how the groups have managed to successfully use rhetoric to exert social power and establish agency in a world that denies them privileged status. Each of these groups' work helps to establish a constitutive rhetoric of otherness, a contribution to a genre of Outsider Rhetoric in which the rhetor(s) create a narrative in which they as subjects have legitimacy as rhetors, and in which the audience is then reconstituted to perceive this legitimacy.

General

Imprint:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler
Dimensions:	244 x 168 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	318
ISBN-13:	978-1-61147-419-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	1-61147-419-1
Barcode:	9781611474190

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