Alternative Rhetorics

Laura Gray-Rosendale is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Chair of Northern Arizona University's Commission on the Status of Women. She is also the author of Rethinking "Basic Writing": Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in Interaction. Sibylle Gruber is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Northern Arizona University and editor of Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies.

"Alternative Rhetorics is a fine work of scholarly originality that is well crafted and energetically written. It will serve as a resource to students and scholars alike." — C. Jan Swearingen, Texas A&M University"The book argues eloquently for understanding rhetoric as a decisive influence, an inclusive rather than an exclusive cultural power. It is compellingly instructive, and makes a significant contribution to the fields it brings together." — Christine Murray, Director, English Writing Center, University of Texas, Arlington

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Moving Beyond Traditions: Exploring the Need for "Alternative Rhetorics"LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE AND SIBYLLE GRUBER PART I: CHANGING HISTORIES, CHANGING LIVES: REVISITING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION 1. Remembering the Rhetorics of Women: The Case of Jane LeadCATHERINE F. SMITH 2. Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as RhetorPHYLLIS MENTZELL RYDER, VALENTINA M. ABORDONADO, BARABRA HEIFFERON, AND DUANE H. ROEN 3. "Wooden Shoes and Mantle Clocks": Letter Writing as a Rhetorical Forum for the Transforming Immigrant IdentityKATHLEEN A. DEHAAN PART II: VIRTUAL REALITY, REAL VIRTUALITY: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE RHETORICS OF CYBERSPACE 4. The Rhetorics of Three Women Activist Groups on the Web: Building and Transforming CommunitiesSIBYLLE GRUBER 5. Authority and Credibility: Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-EthosTHERESA ENOS AND SHANE BORROWMAN 6. Like a Cyborg Cassandra: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Internet's Misbegotten Rhetorical SituationJACQUELINE J. LAMBIASE 7. @ home among the.coms: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the WebJOHN B. KILLORAN PART III: RESISTING LABELS, PROMOTING CHANGE: TAKING A NEW LOOK AT RHETORICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE AND FILM 8. Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937)LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE 9. Visual Rhetorics and Classroom Practices: Negotiating "Contact Zones" in Julie Dash's Daughters of the DustANTHONY J. MICHEL 10. Audience in Afrocentric Rhetoric: Promoting Huam Agency and Social ChangeDANIEL F. COLLINS PART IV: OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER CUSTOMS: DEFYING TRADITIONAL RHETORICS OF GENDER AND CLASS IN ASIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES 11. Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's A Japanese Nightengale and Sui Sin Far's "The Smuggling of Tie Co"HUINING OUYANG 12. The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers: A Perspective from the Rhetorical SituationHUI WU 13. When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese CultureJEFF SCHONBERG Contirbutors Index