Rhetorics of the Americas
Subtitle: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE
By: [edited by ] Damián Baca and Victor Villanueva
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Description: This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous rhetorics might have looked like and how their influences remainches The reader is invivted to recognize "the invention of the Americas," providing other ways to contemplate material life prior to contemporary capitalism, telling us about the global from long ago to current global capitalism. This book is the drop that will ripple, creating new lines of inquiry into language use within the Americas and the legacies of genocide, conquest, and cultural survival.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.