Alternative Rhetorics : Challenges to the

Laura Gray-Rosendale is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Chair of Northern Arizona University's Commission on the Status of Women. Sibylle Gruber is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Northern Arizona University.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Moving Beyond Traditions: Exploring the Need for ``Alternative Rhetorics''

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Laura Gray-Rosendale

Sibylle Gruber

PART I CHANGING HISTORIES, CHANGING LIVES: REVISITING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION

Remembering the Rhetorics of Women: The Case of Jane Lead

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Catherine F. Smith

Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as Rhetor

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Phyllis Mentzell Ryder

Valentina M. Abordonado

Barbara Heifferon

Duane H. Roen

``Wooden Shoes and Mantle Clocks'': Letter Writing as a Rhetorical Forum for the Transforming Immigrant Identity

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Kathleen A. Dehaan

PART II VIRTUAL REALITY, REAL VIRTUALITY: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE RHETORICS OF CYBERSPACE

The Rhetorics of Three Women Activist Groups on the Web: Building and Transforming Communities

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Sibylle Gruber

Authority and Credibility: Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-Ethos

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Theresa Enos

Shane Borrowman

Like a Cyborg Cassandra: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Internet's Misbegotten Rhetorical Situation

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Jacqueline J. Lambiase

@ home among the .coms: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the Web

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John B. Killoran

PART III RESISTING LABELS, PROMOTING CHANGE: TAKING A NEW LOOK AT RHETORICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE AND FILM

Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937)

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Laura Gray-Rosendale

Visual Rhetorics and Classroom Practices: Negotiating `Contact Zones' in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust

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Anthony J. Michel

Audience in Afrocentric Rhetoric: Promoting Human Agency and Social Change

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Daniel F. Collins

PART IV OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER CUSTOMS: DEFYING TRADITIONAL RHETORICS OF GENDER AND CLASS IN ASIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES

Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's A Japanese Nightingale and Sui Sin Fat's ``The Smuggling of Tie Co''

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Huining Ouyang

The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers: A Perspective from the Rhetorical Situation

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Hui Wu

When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture

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Jeff Schonberg

Contributors

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Index

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