New Approaches to Rhetoric provides fresh perspectives on the study of rhetoric and its ability to affect change in today's society. Although traditional approaches (e.g., neo-Aristotelian) to the study of rhetoric have utility for the twenty-first century, communication in a complex, mass-mediated postmodern age calls for new critical approaches. The contributors of this volume, including James Darsey, Kathryn M. Olson and G. Thomas Goodnight, George Cheney, Dana Cloud, and Barry Brummett, explore possibilities for bridging rhetorical studies of the past with rhetorical studies of the future. The original essays invite students to join rhetorical theorists and critics in an ongoing dialogue concerning what it means to study communication in a postmodern world. New Approaches to Rhetoric is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and in Political Communication in departments of Communication, English, and Political Science. This book is suitable for use as either a primary or supplemental course text and will be invaluable as a general reference for scholars of rhetoric, social movements, and public sphere studies.

Memory as Social Action: Cultural Projection and Generic Form in Civil Rights Memorials

Memory as Social Action: Cultural Projection and Generic Form in Civil Rights Memorials

Memory as social action: Cultural projection and generic form in civil rights memorials
Victoria J.Gallagher

In my hometown paper, there was a story about a group of people embarking on a civil rights heritage tour. The tour was organized by the Raleigh Martin Luther King Resource Center and began on April 4, the 33rd anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s (MLK) assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee (now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum). The travelers on this tour were described as being on a “pilgrimage into the past” and “bonded by their hunger to see civil rights landmarks firsthand” (Starling, 2001, p. 1D). Although this story caught my attention ...

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