One of the authors defines the term
“survivance” as coined from “survival” and “resistance.” The message is plain:
The native peoples used their indigenous rhetorics to analyze and
criticize and discredit the European and
Western concept of colonialism to marginalize native people by trying to
assimilate them into the dominant culture. In reading about these native
authors, students learn the power of writing to resist.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Rhetoric of Indigenous People
Note: The entire
issue of the September 2011 journal College
Composition and Communication is devoted to the rhetorics of indigenous
people. For example, several articles deal with the American attempt to educate
the Cherokee.
Comment: This issue of College Composition and
Communication (September 2011), is a keeper. You might skim it to begin with,
but you will come back to it again. The articles are significant and well
written, too. RayS.
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