Southern rhetoric is communication's oldest regional study. During
its initial invention, the discipline was founded to justify the
study of rhetoric in a field of white male scholars analyzing
significant speeches by other white men, yielding research that
added to myths of Lost Cause ideology and a uniquely oratorical
culture. Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric takes on the much-overdue
task of reconstructing the way southern rhetoric has been viewed
and critiqued within the communication discipline. The collection
reveals that southern rhetoric is fluid and migrates beyond
geography, is constructed in weak counterpublic formation against
legitimated power, creates a region that is not monolithic, and
warrants activism and healing. Contributors to the volume examine
such topics as political campaign strategies, memorial and museum
experiences, television and music influences, commemoration
protests, and ethnographic experiences in the South. The essays
cohesively illustrate southern identity as manifested in various
contexts and ways, considering what it means to be a part of a
region riddled with slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other expressions
of racial and cultural hierarchy. Ultimately, the volume initiates
a new conversation, asking what would southern rhetorical critique
be like if it included the richness of the southern culture from
which it came? Contributions by Whitney Jordan Adams, Wendy
Atkins-Sayre, Jason Edward Black, Patricia G. Davis, Cassidy D.
Ellis, Megan Fitzmaurice, Michael L. Forst, Jeremy R. Grossman,
Cynthia P. King, Julia M. Medhurst, Ryan Neville-Shepard, Jonathan
M. Smith, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Dave Tell, and Carolyn Walcott.
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