College Composition and Communication Feb 2002

Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing

Malea Powell

Abstract

In this story I listen closely to the ways in which two late nineteenth-century American Indian intellectuals, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and Charles Alexander Eastman, use the discourses about Indian-ness that circulated during that time period in order to both respond to that discourse and to reimagine what it could mean to be Indian. This use, I argue, is a critical component of rhetorics of survivance.

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College Composition and Communication
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2002-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20021457
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