Rhetoric and community
Subtitle: studies in unity and fragmentation
By: edited by J. Michael Hogan.
Contributors: Hogan, J. Michael, 1953-
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Rhetoric -- Social aspects.
Description: In Rhetoric and Community, seventeen leading scholars of rhetoric and discourse join forces to explore an area of growing scholarly interest - how rhetoric defines, rallies, polarizes, and marginalizes specific communities.

Contributors to the volume consider such contentious issues as how individuals are forged into "communities"; what sustains vibrant, constructive communities; how communities become fragmented; and what leads to divisions of race, class, and gender, the rhetoric of hatred and violence, or failures of public discussion to resolve common problems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Patterns of metaphor among early feminist orators / Michael Osborn; title: The perils of patterning / Martha Watson; title: The power of hegemony: capitalism and racism in the "nadir of Negro history" / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell; title: "The power of hegemony" and Marxist cultural theory / James Arnt Aune; title: Du Bois, double-consciousness, and the modern city / Stephen H. Browne; title: "The voice of exile": W. E. B. Du Bois and the quest for culture / James Darsey; title: On rhetoric in martial decision making / Ronald H. Carpenter; title: Martial decision making: MacArthur, Inchon, and the dimensions of rhetoric / Martin J. Medhurst; title: The particular aesthetics of Winston Churchill's "war situation I" / Celeste M. Condit and April M. Greer; title: Churchill's "Machiavellian moment": the negotiation of anxiety in the "war situation I" / James Jasinski; title: Thinking through film: Hollywood remembers the blacklist / Thomas W. Benson; title: The social-political dimensions of film: a response to Benson's analysis of Guilty by suspicion / Bruce E. Gronbeck; title: Rhetoric and scientific communities / John Lyne; title: Feuding communities and the feudalism of science: democratizing the community and/of science / Charles Alan Taylor; title: Conclusion: rhetoric and the restoration of community / J. Michael Hogan.