April 7 Voices of the Self . The ethics of rhetoric, and the vernacular dialect. We will discuss Keith Gilyard's narrative of his multiple literacies and the rhetorical implications of literacy narratives, asking how they might interact with an ethnic history. Write a response in mixed voices, using quotations as well as your own writing. Man is the measure.
Individualism encounters the charge of relativism.
The question of the postmodern split subject and the intersection of personal and social histories. The influence of pedagogy, of field work, of practice. Write a brief summary of the two arguments, and finish with two critical questions. Read the questions posted by others, and post a response. Discuss Neel and Bialostosky, trying to agree on a definition of rhetoric, dialogic, dialectic, and sophistic.