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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-333) and index
Original, never-before-published pieces by leading rhetorical theorists and critics: James Darsey, Kathryn Olson, George Cheney, Dana Cloud and Marouf Hasain, among others. Each part opens with a brief introduction to frame discussion for students
pt. I: Rhetorics, ethics, and values ; 1. James Baldwin's Topoi / James Darsey ; 2. Ingenium-- speaking in community: the case of the Prince William County zoning hearings on Disney's America / Kathryn M. Olson and G. Thomas Goodnight ; 3. Arguing about the place of values and ethics in market-oriented discourses of today / George Cheney ; 4. Cultural contracts theory: toward a critical-rhetorical identity negotiation paradigm / Ronald L. Jackson, II -- pt. II: Rhetorics, institutions, and contexts ; 5. Remembrances of things past: a postcolonial critique of the human genome diversity project / Marouf Hasian, Jr., and Emily Plec ; 6. The life of the party: the contemporary keynote address / John M. Murphy and Thomas R. Burkholder ; 7. Memory as social action: cultural projection and generic form in civil rights memorials / Victoria J. Gallagher ; 8. John Wayne, The Green Berets, and the containment doctrine / George N. Dionisopoulos -- pt. III: Rhetorics, cultures, and ideologies ; 9. Fighting words: labor and the limits of symbolic intervention at Staley, 1993-1996 / Dana L. Cloud ; 10. Demonizing democracy: the strange career of Lani Guinier / Kathryn Cañas and Mark Lawrence McPhail ; 11. Racial apologies / Dexter B. Gordon and Carrie Crenshaw ; 12. Autobiography, rhetoric, and Frank McCourt's Angela's ashes and 'Tis: a memoir / Patricia A. Sullivan and Steven R. Goldzwig ; 13. Communities, identities, and politics: what rhetoric is becoming in the twenty-first century / Barry Brummett