Rhetoric Society Quarterly Mar 2020

The Trace of a Mark That Scatters: The Anthropoi and the Rhetoric of Decoloniality

Romeo García ; José M. Cortez

Abstract

The turn to Latin American rhetoric has broadly been galvanized by the need for a politics of difference. Critics have drawn from Latinamericanist theories of decoloniality to mobilize epistemological alternatives to Western forms of knowledge production and to critique the representations of alterity in the Western rhetorical tradition, posing variations of a common question: how to proceed from merely tolerating difference in the Western paradigm of rhetoric to actually theorizing rhetoric from the locus of non-Western (that is, non-logocentric) space? In this essay, we analyze the aporia dredged up by Latinamericanist theories of decoloniality as a prism through which to renew and rethink the terms and conditions of comparativist inquiry. We conclude by setting to work on preparing the non-nostalgic grounds for an alterity yet to arrive under the heading of the X.

Journal
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published
2020-03-14
DOI
10.1080/02773945.2020.1714703
Open Access
Closed
Topics
race and writing

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