CCR 751. Brueggemann, Brenda Jo.

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo.
Lend Me Your Ear
Chapter One, “Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness: Discovering All the Available Means of Persuasion.”
In this chapter Brueggemann explains the foundation of the book, the idea that “[i]n using language, we enter the realm of rhetoric, where individuals and cultures construct and are constructed” (3).

CCR 751. The Women’s Rights Museum

Some questions to think about as we encountered each historical site:
–Feel free to consider what questions you have about the place as a site
of public memory and a site of social history of a movement and/or a figure
or figures?

CCR 751. Buchanan, Lindal.

Buchanan, Lindal.
Chapter Four, “Delivering Discourse and Children.”
Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors.
The fifth cannon of rhetoric (delivery) is traditionally seen as a simple situation of material delivery by the speaker—literally issues of “volume and tone, rhythm and speed, gesture, movement, and expression” (2).

CCR 751. Campbell, Kermit.

Campbell, Kermit.
“Who is Who We Was: The African/American Rhetoric of Amistad.”
African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Eds. Elaine B. Richardson and Ronald L. Jackson II 
Warning: This entry is a patchwork of various stream of consciousness episodes. 
Why is Campbell using a risqué toast, the movie Titanic, the movie Amistad, and the accepted history of the Amistad to talk about rhetoric?

CCR 751. Bacon, Jacqueline.

Bacon, Jacqueline,
Chapter Four, “If I Was a Man, How I Would Lecture!  White Women Rhetors in the Abolition Movement.”
The Humblest May Stand Forth.