College Composition and Communication Feb 2000

Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?

Scott Richard Lyons

Abstract

After years of colonization, oppression, and resistance, American Indians are making clear what they want from the heretofore compromised technology of writing. Rhetorical sovereignty, a people’s control of its meaning, is found in sites legal, aesthetic, and pedagogical, and composition studies can both contribute to and learn from this work.

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College Composition and Communication
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2000-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20001387
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